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HYMNS 



FOR THE USE OF 



THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHL'RCH. 



REVISED EDITION. 



I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also, 
1 Corinthians xiv, 15. 



New York : 



PUBLISHED BY CARLTON & LANAHAN, 

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1868. 



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Entered accordirxg to Act of Confess, in the year 1849, 

BY LANE & SCOTT, 

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ADDRESS 



MEMBERS AND FRIENDS OF THE METHODIST 
EPISCOPAL CHURCH. 

The Hymn Book heretofore in use among us 
was, in our opinion, unsurpassed. But the 
Q-pr^oj-al Conference of 1848, judging that the 
olume could be improved by a careful revi- 
on, and by judiciously multiplying the number 
hymns, appointed a Committee, composed of 
nnisters and laymen, to prepare a Standard 
.'lition of the Methodist Hymn Book.* This 
Committee, having finished the work assigned 
them, submitted it to the examination of the 
Book Committee, and of the Editors of the Book 
Concern; and having been approved by them, it 
came before us for a final review. Our exami- 
nation has been as thorough as the limited time 
at our disposal allowed. Although we reluc- 
tantly part with some of the familiar hymns of 

■^ The Committee were Rev. D. Dciiley, Rev. J. B. Alverson, 
Rev. J. Floy, Rev. D. Patten, jun., Rev. F. Merrick, Mr. R. A. 
"West, and ^[i-. D. Creamer. 



4 ADDRESS. 

the old book, and though, perhaps, in the judg- 
ment of some, they have not, in every instance, 
been substituted by hymns of greater merit, yet 
we can confidently approve this Revised Copy; 
and we do, most cordially, recommend it as a 
greatly improved and standard edition of the 
Methodist Hymn Book. We congratulate you, 
brethren, on having now such a Book as, from 
the number, variety, and adaptation of its 
hymns, will not require another revision for 
generations to come. 

In presenting to you this Standard Hymn 
Book, we believe that we are putting into your 
hands one of the choicest selections of evange- 
lical Hymns for Private Devotion, as well as for 
Family, Social, and Public Worship. We are 
gratified also to add, that no mercenary ends 
are sought in this publication ; for after the ne- 
cessary expenses are met, its avails, if any, will 
be sacredly devoted to charitable and religious 
objects, as were the profits of the former edition. 
We urge you, therefore, by your regard for our 
Church, and for the authority of the General 
Conference, to purchase only such Methodist 



ADDRESS. O 

Hymn Books as are published by our Agents, 

and have the names of your Bishops. 

We exhort you, dear brethren, to sing with 

the Spirit, and with the understanding also; 

and we shall rejoice to join you in time and 

in eternity. 

Your affectionate pastors in Christ, 

ELIJAH HEDDIN^G. 

BEVERLY WAUQH, 

THO. A. MORRIS, 

L. L. HAMLINE, 

EDMUKD S. JANES. 
Neu- York^ May, 1849. 



CONTENTS. 



Page 

Introductory TO Worship 7 

The Divine Perfections 45 

{Incarnation and Birth 73 

Sufferings and Death 8.3 

Resurrection and Ascension .... 95 

Priesthood and Intercession .... 10 

The Holy Spirit 115 

rThe Ministry 127 

Institutions OF J Jl;^ ?Sl If. 

THE Gospel. i pi'J.f.^^''*"' t? 

Baptism . 155 

I The Lord's Supper 160 

Provisions and Promises of the Gospel 171 

r Depravity 187 

Thf SiNNFR J Awakening 197 

iHEbiNNER. i Inviting 205 

I Penitential 217 

f Justification by Faith 261 

The Christian Life. < Adoption and Assurance 276 

L Sanctification 289 

f Prayer and Intercession 331 

MB.KS0KGH.CE. Ur'^o^lt™"?"; ,•::;;:: 1^^ 

I Reading the Scriptures 403 

Christian Fellow- j Communion of Saints 411 

ship. ( Love-Feast 423 

rThe Warfare 431 

Duties and Trials. < Patience and Resignation .... 443 

I Steadfastness and Growth in Grace . 474 

rT,„rTTT..^T«*, ( Unfaithfuhiess Mourned 507 

fluMiLiATiON. i BacksUdings Lamented 515 

rin Deliverance from Trouble . . . 525 

Rejoicing. < In Communion with God 533 

lln Prospect of Heaven 551 

r Erection of Churches 575 

.■•BCIAL occasions. ■( ^':j,X;.'fS,00lS .' i ! ! ! ! ! 1 fiOS 

L Miscellaneous 609 

rWatch-Night and New-Year . . . 027 

T. T. X. i?x,r, ,T^, ) Brevity and Uncertainty of Life . 634 

^'^^^■^^^^^^«^'^^^- i Death and Resurrection 641 

(. Day of Judgment 66S 

Close of U'orship 675 



HYMNS. 



[NTRODUCTORY TO WORSHIP. 



1 CM. 

General Invitation to praise the Redeemer. 

OF OR a thousand tongues, to sing 
My great Redeemer's praise ; 
The glories of mj'- God and King, 
The triumphs of his grace. 

2 My gracious Master, and my God, 
Assist me to proclaim, — 

To spread, through all the earth abroad. 
The honours of thy Name. 

3 J esus ! — the Name that charms our fears, 
That bids our sorrows cease ; 

'Tis music in the sinner's ears, 
'Tis life, and health, and peace. 

4 He breaks the power of cancell'd sin, 
He sets the pris'ner free ; 

His blood can make the foulest clean; 
His blood avail'd for me. 

5 He speaks, — and, list'ning to his voice. 
New life the dead receive; 

The mournful, broken hearts rejoice; 
The humble poor beheve. 

6 Hear him, ye deaf; his praise, ye dumb, 
Your loosen'd tongues employ ; 

Ye blind, behold your Saviour come ; 
And leap, ye lame, for joy. 



INTR0DUCT0R1. 

2 S. M. 

The song of Moses and the Lamb. 

AWAE[E, and sing the song 
Of Moses and the Lamb ; 
Wake, every heart and every tongue. 
To praise the Saviour's Name. 

2 Sing of his dying love ; 
Sing of his rising power ; 

Sing how he intercedes above 
For those whose sins he bore. 

3 Ye pilgrims, on the road 
To Zion's city, sing; 

Rejoice ye in the Lamb of God, — 
In Christ, the' eternal King. 

4 Soon shall we hear him say, — 
Ye blessed children, come; 

Soon will he call us hence away. 
To our eternal home. 

5 There shall each raptured tongue 
His endless praise proclaim; 

And sweeter voices tune the song 
Of Moses and the Lamb. 

3 C. M. 

The Heavenly Quest. 

COME, let us who in Christ beheve. 
Our common Saviour praise : 
To him, with joyful voices, give 
The glory of his grace. 

2 He now stands knocking at the door 
Of every sinner's heart : 

The worst need keep him out no more. 
Or force him to depart. 

3 Through grace we hearken to thy voice, 
Yield to be saved from sin; 

h\ sure and certain hope rejoice, 
That thou wilt enter in. 



INTRODUCTORY. 

1 Come quickly in, thou heavenly guest, 
Nor ever hence remove ; 

But sup Avith us, and let the feast 
Be everlasting love. 

4 C. M. 

Tlte Lamb worshipped on earth and in heaven. 

COME, let us join our cheerful songs 
With angels round the throne : 
Ten thousand thousand are their tongues, 
But all their joys are one. 

2 Worthy the Lamb that died, they cry. 
To be exalted thus : 

Worthy the Lamb, our hearts reply, 
• For he was slain for us. 

3 Jesus is worthy to receive 
Honour and power divine ; 

And blessings more than we can give. 
Be, Lord, forever thine. 

4 The whole creation join in one. 
To bless the sacred name 

Of Him that sits upon tlie throne. 
And to adore the Lamb. 

5 L. M. 

Jesus reigns. 

COME, let us tune our loftiest song, 
And raise to Christ our joyful strain ; 
Worship and thanks to Him belong. 
Who reigns, and shall forever reign. 

2 His sovereign power our bodies made ; 
Our souls are his immortal breath ; 

x\nd when his creatures sinn'd, he bled. 
To save us from eternal death. 

3 Burn every breast with Jesus' love ; 
Bound every heart Avith rapturous joy ; 

And saints on earth, with saints above. 
Your voices in liis praise employ. 



10 INTRODUCTORY. 

4 Extol the Lamb with loftiest song, 
Ascend for him our cheerful strain ; 

Worship and thanks to Him belong, 
Who reigns, and shall forever reign. 

6 C. M. 

The glories of our Kinj, 

COME, ye that love the Saviour's name. 
And joy to make it known,. 
The Sovereign of your hearts proclaim, 
And bow before his throne. 

2 Behold your Lord, your Master, crown'd 
With glories all divine: 

And tell the wondering nations round, 
How bright those glories shine. 

3 When, in his earthly courts, we view 
The glories of our King, 

We long to love as angels do, 
And wish, like them, to shig. 

4 And shall we long and wish in vain ? 
Lord, teach our songs to rise : 

Thy love can animate the strain. 
And bid it reach the skies. 

7 CM. 

Joining the song of the Church triumj^hanU 

SING we the song of those who stand 
Around the' eternal throne, 
Of every kindred, chme, and land, — 
A multitude unknown. 

2 Life's poor distinctions vanish here; 

To-day the young, the old, 
Our Saviour and his flock, appear, 

One shepherd and one fold. 



INTRODUCTORY. H 

3 Toil, trial, sufF'ring still await 
On earth the pilgrim throng; 

Yet learn we in our low estate 
The Church triumphant's song. 

4 Worthy the Lamb for sinners slain, 
Cry the redeemed above. 

Blessing and honour to obtam, 
And everlasting love. 

5 Worthy the Lamb, on earth we sing, 
Who died our souls to save; 

Henceforth, Death, where is thy sting? 
Thy victory, Grave ? 

G Then hallelujah ! power and praise 

To God in Christ be given; 
jSIay all who now this anthem raise. 

Renew the song in heaven. 

8 9th P. M. 81, 81 

Gloi'y to the Lamh. 

HARK ! the notes of angels, singmg, 
Glory, glory to the Lamb ! 
All in heaven tlieir tribute brinorinof, 
Raisins: hio'h the Saviour's name. 

2 Y^e for whom his hfe was given. 
Sacred themes to you belong: 

Come, assist the choir of heaven ; 
Jom the everlastinof sono^. 

3 Fill'd with holy emulation, 
We unite with those above : 

Sweet the theme — a free salvation — 
Fruit of everlastinof love. 

4 Endless hfe in him possessing, 
Let us praise his precious name , 

Glory, honour, power, and blessing. 
Be forever to the Lamb. 



12 INTRODUCTORY. 

9 5tli P, M. 4 lines Ys. 
Saints and angels ever praising God. 

SONGS of praise tlie angels sang, 
Heaven with hallelujahs rang, 
When Jehovah's work begun, 
When he spake and it was done. 

2 Songs of praise awoke the morn. 
When the Prince of peace was born ; 
Songs of praise arose, when he 
Captive led captivity. 

3 Saints below, with heart and voice. 
Still in songs of praise rejoice ; 
Learning here, by faith and love, 
Songs of praise to sing above. 

4 Borne upon their latest breath. 
Songs of praise shall conquer death ; 
Then, amid eternal joy, 

Songs of praise their powers employ. 

10 . L. M. 

Tribute of praise to the Saviour. 

JESUS, thou everlasting King, 
Accept the tribute which we bring; 
Accept thy well- deserved renoAvn, 
And wear our praises as thy crown. 

2 Let every act of worship be 
Like our espousals. Lord, to thee: 
Like the blest hour, when from above 
We first received the pledge of love. 

3 The gladness of that happy day, 
may it ever, ever stay: 

Nor let our faith forsake its hold. 
Nor hope decline, nor love grow cold. 

4 Let every moment, as it flies, 
Increase thy praise, improve our joys, 
Till we are raised to sing thy Name, 
At the great supper of the Lamb. 



INTRODUCTOKY. 13 

11 L. k. 

The cj-eation invited to praise God. 

FROM all that dwell below tiie skies, 
Let the Creator's praise arise ; 
Let the Redeemer's name be sung, 
Through every land, by every tongue. 

2 Eternal are thy mercies. Lord ; 
Eternal truth attends thy word : 

Thy praise shall sound from shore to shore, 
Till suns shall rise and set no more. 

3 Your lofty themes, ye mortals, bring; 
In songs of praise divinely sing; 

The great salvation loud proclaim. 
And shout for joy the Saviour's name. 

4 In every land begin the song; 
To every land the strains belong : 
In cheerful sounds all voices raise. 
And fill the world with loudest praise. 

12 S. M. 

'The universal King, 

COME, sound his praise abroad, 
And hymns of glory sing : 
Jehovah is tlie sovereign God, 
The universal King. 

2 He formed the deeps unknown ; 
He gave the seas their bound ; 

The watery worlds are all his own, 
And all the solid ground. 

3 Come, worship at his throne, 
Come, bow before the Lord ; 

We are liis works, and not our own, 
He form'd us by his word. 

4 To-day attend his voice, 
Nor dare provoke his rod ; 

Come, like the people of his choice, 
And own youi^ gracious God. 



14 INTRODUCTORY. 

13 4th P. M. 886,886 
The love of Jesus. 

JESUS, thou soul of all our joys, 
For whom we now lift up our voice. 
And all our strength exert, — 
Vouchsafe the grace we humbly claim ; 
Compose into a thankful frame. 
And tune thy people's heart. 

2 While in the heavenly work we join, 
Thy glory be our whole design, 

Thy glory, not our own : — 
Still let us keep this end in view. 
And still the pleasing task pursue. 

To please our God alone. 

3 Tliee let us praise, our common Lord, 
And sweetly join, with one accord. 

Thy goodness to proclaim : 
Jesus, thyself in us reveal. 
And all our faculties shall feel 

Thy harmonizing name. 

4 With calmly reverential joy, 
let us all our hves employ 

In setting forth thy love ; 
And raise in death our -triumph higher, 
And sing, with all the heavenly choir, 

That endless song above. 

14 S. M. 

Exhortation to praise and thanksgiving, 

ARISE and bless the Lord, 
Ye people of his choice ; 
Arise, and bless the Loi'd your God, 

With heart, and soul, and voice. 
2 Though high above all praise. 

Above all blessinc: hio-h. 
Who would not fear his holv Name, 
And laud, and maornifv? 



INTRODUCTORY. 15 

3 for the living flame, 
From his own altar brought, 

To touch our lips, our souls inspire, 
And wing to heaven our thought. 

4 God is our strength and song, 
And his salvation oui's ; 

Then be his love in Christ proclaim' d 
With all our ransom'd powers. 

5 Arise, and bless the Lord ; 
The Lord your God adore ; 

Arise, and bless his glorious Name, 
Henceforth, forevermore. 

1 5 5th P. M. 4 lines 7s. 

Let all the people praise Him. 

THANK and praise Jehovah's Name, 
For his mercies, film and sure; 
From eternity the same. 
To eternity endui'e. 

2 Let the ransom'd thus rejoice, 
Gather'd out of every land ; 

As the people of his choice, 

Pluck'd from the destroyer's hand. 

3 Let the elders praise the Lord, 
Him let all the people praise. 

When they meet, with one accord, 
In his courts on holy days. 

4 Praise him, ye who know his love ; 
Praise him from the depths beneath ; 

Praise him in the heights above ; 
Praise your Maker, all that breathe. 

5 For his truth and mercy stand, 
Past, and present, and to be, 

Like the years of his right hand. 
Like his own eternitv. 



IG INTRODUCTORY. 

16 L. M. ■ 

Gh^ateful adoration, 

BEFORE Jehovah's awful throne, 
Ye nations bow with sacred joy ; 
Know that the Lord is God alone, 
He can create, and he destroy. 

2 His sovereign power, without our aid, 
Made us of clay, and form'd us men ; 

And when like wandering sheep we stray'd. 
He brought us to his fold again. 

3 We'll crowd thy gates with thankful songs. 
High as the heavens our voices raise ; 

And earth, with her ten thousand tongues. 
Shall fill thy courts with sounding praise. 

4 Wide as the world is thy command ; 
Vast as eternity thy love ; 

Finn as a rock thy truth shall stand, 
When rolling years shall cease to move. 

17 L. M. 

The prosperity of the saints. 

RENDER thanks to God above. 
The fountain of eternal love. 
Whose mercy firm through ages past 
Hath stood, and shall forever last. 

2 Who can his mighty deeds express, 
Not only vast, but numberless ? 
What mortal eloquence can raise 

His tribute of immortal praise ? 

3 Extend to me that favour. Lord, 
Thou to thy chosen dost afibrd ; 
When thou return' st to set them free. 
Let thy salvation visit me. 

4 O may I worthy prove to see 
Thy saints in full prosperity, — 
That I the joyful choir may jom, 
And count thy people's triumph mine! 



INTRODUCTORY. 17 

18 13th P. M. 1010,1111. 

Adoration for infinite love, 

YE servants of God, your Master proclaim, 
And publish abroad his wonderful name; 
Tlie name all-victorious of Jesus extol ; 
His kingdom is glorious ; he rules over all. 

2 God inileth on high, almighty to save; 
And still he is nigh ; his presence we have : 
The great congregation his triumph shall sing, 
Ascribing salvation to Jesus our King. 

3 Salvation to God, who sits on the throne ; 
Let all cry aloud, and honour the Son : 
The praises of Jesus the angels proclaim. 

Fall down on their faces, and worship the Lamb. 

4 Then let us adore, and give him his right, — 
All glory and power, and wisdom and might, 
All honour and blessing, with angels above. 
And thanks never ceasing, for infinite love. 

1 9 4th P. M. 886, 886 

The glory of His grace. 

LET all on earth their voices raise. 
To sing the great Jehovah's praise, 
And bless his holy ^N'ame : 
His glory let the heathen know, 
His wonders to the nations show. 
His saving grace proclaim. 

2 He framed the globe ; he built the sky ; 
He made the shining worlds on high. 

And reigns in glory there : 
His beams are majesty and hght ; 
His beauties, how divinely bright ! 

His d welling-place, how fair ! 

2 



18 INTRODUCTORY. 

3 Come the great day, the glorious hour, 
When earth shall feel his saving power, 

All nations fear his name : 
Then shall the race of men confess 
The beauty of his holiness, 

His sa\4ng grace proclaim. 

20 L. M. 

The glories ofJehxyvah. 

SERVANTS of God! in joyful lays, 
Sing ye the Lord Jehovah's praise; 
His glorious Name let all adore, 
From age to age, for evermore. 

2 Blest be that Name, supremely blest, 
From the sun's rising to its rest ; 
Above the heavens his power is known. 
Through all the earth his goodness shown. 

3 Who is like God? so great, so high. 
He bows himself to view the sky ; 
And yet, with condescending grace. 
Looks down upon the human race. 

4 He hears the uncomplaining moan 
Of those who sit and weep alone ; 
He lifts the mourner from the dust; 
In Him the poor may safely trust. 

5 then, aloud, in joyful lays. 
Sing to the Lord Jehovah's praise ; 
His saving Name let all adore. 
From age to age, for evermore. 

21 3d P. M. 4 6S&2 8 

The universal King. 

YOUNG men and maidens, raise 
Your tuneful voices high ; 
Old men and children, praise 
The Lord of earth and sky : 
Him three in one, and one in three. 
Extol to all eternity. 



INTR0DUCT0K5f. 19 

*1 The universal King 

Let all the world proclaim ; 
Let every creatui'e sing 
His attributes and name: 
Him three in one, and one in three, 
Extol to all eternity. 

3 In His great Name alone 
All excellences meet. 

Who sits upon the throne, 
And shall forever sit : 
Him three in one, and one in three. 
Extol to all eternity. 

4 Glory to God belongs ; 
Glory to God be given, 

Above the noblest songs, 
Of all in earth and heaven : 
Him three in one, and one -in three, 
Extol to all eternity. 

22 11th P. M. 76, 76, 77, 76. 

The Triune God of truth and grace, 

MEET and right it is to sing, 
In every time and place. 
Glory to our heavenly King, 

The God of truth and grace-: 
Join we then with sweet accord. 

All in one thanksgi\TQg join ; 
Holy, holy, holy Lord, 

Eternal praise be thine. 
2 Thee the first-born sons of light, 

In choral symphonies. 
Praise by day, day without night. 

And never, never cease ; 
Angels, and archangels, all 

Praise the mystic Three in One ; 
Sing, and stop, and gaze, and fall 

Overwhelmed before thy thron<^. 



20 INTRODUCTORY. 

S Vying with that heavenly choir, 

Wlio chant thy praise above, 
We on eagles' wings aspire, — 

The wings of faith and love ; 
Thee they sing, . with glory crown'd ; 

We extol the slaughtered Lamb ; 
Lower if our voices sound. 

Our subject is the same. 

4 Father, God, thy love we praise. 

Which gave thy Son to die ; 
Jesus, full of truth and grace. 

Alike we glorify ; 
Spirit, Comforter di\dne, 

Praise by all to thee be given, 
Till we in full choinis join. 

And earth is turn'd to heaven. 

23 9th P. M. Si, SI 

The Triune God glorified. 

GLORY to the' ahnighty Father, 
Fountain of eternal love. 
Who, his wand' ring sheep to gather. 
Sent a Saviour from above. 

2 To the Son all praise be given. 
Who, with love unknown before. 

Left the bright abode of heaven. 
And our sin and sorrows bore. 

3 Equal strains of warm devotion 
Let the Spirit's praise employ ; 

Author of each pure emotion; 

Source of wisdom, peace, and joy. 

4 Thus, while our glad hearts, ascending, 
Glorify Jehovah's Name, 

Heavenly songs with ours are blending; 
The -e the theme is still the same. 



INTRODUCTORY. 21 

24 3d P. M. 4 6s J? 2 8s. 
Longing for the house of God. 

LORD of the worlds above, 
How pleasant and how fair 
The dwellings of thy love, 
Thine earthly temples, are; 
To thine abode my heart aspires. 
With warm desires to see my God. 

2 happy souls that pray 
Where God appoints to hear ! 

happy men that pay 

Their constant service there ! 
They praise thee still ; and happy they 
That love the way to Zion's hUl. 

3 They go from strength to strength, 
Through this dark vale of tears. 

Till each arrives at length. 
Till each in heaven appears : 
O glorious seat ! thou, God our King, 
Shalt thither brinor our willino^ feet. 

4 The Lord his people loves ; 
His hand no good withholds 

From those his heart approves. 

From humble, contrite souls : 

Thrice happy he, God of hosts. 

Whose spirit trusts alone in thee ! 

25 19th P. M. 664,6664. 
Invocation of and praise to the Trinity. 

COME, thou Almighty King, 
Help us thy Name to sing. 
Help us to praise: 
Father all -glorious. 
O'er all victorious, 
Come, and reign over us. 
Ancient of days. 



22 INTRODUCTORY. 

2 Jesus, oiir Lord, arise, 
Scatter our enemies, 

And make them fall ; 
Let thine almighty aid 
Our sure defence be made; 
Our souls on thee be stay'd; 

Lord, hear our call. 

3 Come, thou incarnate Word, 
Gird on thy mighty sword, 

Oui- prayer attend ; 
Come, and thy people bless, 
And give thy word success : 
Spirit of holiness, 

On us descend. 

4 Come, holy Comforter, 
Thy sacred witness bear 

In this glad hour : 
Thou who Almighty art. 
Now rule in every heart. 
And ne'er from us depart, 

Spirit of power. 

5 To the great One and Three 
Eternal praises be 

Hence, evermore. 
His sovereign majesty 
May we in glory see, 
And to eternity 

Love and adore. 

26 L. M. 

Joy ofpMic worsldp, 

GREAT God, attend, while Zion sings 
The joy that from thy presence springs; 
To spend one day with thee on earth 
Exceeds a thousand days of mirth. 



INTRODUOTOUY. 23 

2 Might I enjoy the meanest place 
Within thy house, God of grace ; 
T^ot tents of ease, or thrones of power, 
Should tempt my feet to leave thy door. 

3 God is our sun, he makes our day; 
God is our shield, he guards our way 
From all assaults of hell and sin. 
From foes without, and foes within. 

4 All needful grace will God bestow, 
And crown that grace with glory too ; 
He gives us all thmgs, and withholds 
No real good from upright souls. 

5 God our King, whose sovereign sway 
The glorious hosts of heaven obey. 

And de\ils at thy presence flee. 
Blest is the man that trusts in thee. 

27 L. M. 

Solemn reverence, 

ETERNAL Power, whose high abode 
Becomes the grandeur of a God : 
Infinite lengths, beyond the boimds 
Where stars revolve their Httle rounds: 

2 Tliee while the first archangel sings. 
He hides liis face behind his wings : 
And ranks of shining thrones around 
Fall worshipping, and spread the ground. 

3 Lord, what shall earth and ashes do? 
We would adore our Maker too ; 
From sin and dust to thee we cry. 
The Great, the Holy, and the High. 

4 Earth, from afar, hath heard thy fame, 
And worms have learn'd to lisp thy name: 
But ! the glories of thy mind 

Leave all our soaring thoughts behind. 



24 INTRODUCTORY. 

5 God is in heaven, and men below: 
Be short our tunes ; our words be few : 
A solemn reverence checks our songs, 
And praise sits silent on our tongues. 

28 . . L. M. 

Living bread, 

THY presence, gracious God, afford; 
Prepare us to receive thy word : 
Now let thy voice engage our ear, 
And faith be mix'd with what we hear. 

2 Distracting thoughts and cares remove, 
And fix our hearts and hopes above ; 
With food divine may we be fed, 

And satisfied with Uving bread. 

3 To us the sacred word apply. 
With sovereign power and energy ; 
And may we, in thy faith and fear, 
Reduce to practice what we hear. 

4 Father, in us thy Son reveal ; 
Teach us to know and do thy will : 
Thy saving power and love display. 
And guide us to the realms of day. 

29 c. M. 

Invohing God's presence and blessing. 

WITHIN thy house, Lord our God, 
In majesty appear; 
Make this a place of thine abode. 
And shed thy blessings here. 

2 As we thy mercy-seat sun'ound, 
Thy Spirit, Lord, impart: 

And let thy Gospel's joyful sound, 
With power reach every heart. 

3 Here let the blind their sight obtam; 
Here give the mourner rest; 

Let Jesus here triumphant reign, 
Enthroned in every breast. 



INTRODUCTORY. 25 

4 Here let the voice of sacred joy 

And fervent prayer arise, 
Till higher strains our tongues emplo ;v, 

In bhss beyond the skies. 

30 . . L. M. 

How dread/id is this place ! 

OTHOU, whom all thy saints adore, 
We now with all thy saints agree, 
And bow our inmost souls before 
Thy glorious, awful Majesty. 

2 We come, great God, to seek thy face. 
And for thy lo\ing kindness wait ; 

And 0, how dreadful is this place! 

'Tis God's own house, 'tis heaven's gate. 

3 Tremble our hearts to find thee nigh ; 
To thee our trembling hearts aspire: 

And lo ! we see descend from high 
The pillar and the flame of fire. 

4 Still let it on the' assembly stay, 
And all the house with glory fill: 

To Canaan's boimds point out the way. 
And lead us to thy holy hill. 

5 There let us all with Jesus stand. 
And join the general Church above, 

And take our seats at thy right hand. 
And sing thine everlasting love. 

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GocPs gUnious presence, 

THOU God of power, thou God of love, 
Whose glory fills the realms above, 
Whose praise archangels sing. 
And veil their faces while they cry, 
Thrice Holy, to their God Most High, 
Thrice Holy, to their King: — 



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2 Thee as our God we too would claim. 
And bless the Saviour's precious name, 

Through whom this grace is given ; 
He bore the curse to sinners due, 
He forms their ruin'd souls anew. 

And makes them heirs of heaven. 

3 The veil that hides thy glory rend. 
And here in saving power descend, 

And fix thy blest abode ; 
Here to our hearts thyself reveal, 
And let each waiting spirit feel 

Tlie presence of oui' God. 

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A blessing from God's presence. 

GREAT Shepherd of thy people, hear ; 
Thy presence now display ; 
We kneel within thy house of prayer ; 
give us hearts to pray. 

2 The clouds which veil thee from our sight, 
In pity, Lord, remove ; 

Dispose our minds to hear aright 
The message of thy love. 

3 Help us, with holy fear and jcy. 
To kneel before thy face; 

make us, creatures of thy power. 
The children of thy grace. 

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Faith reveals God's presence. 

NOT here, as to the prophet's eye, 
The Lord upon his throne appears ; 
Nor seraph-tongues responsive cry. 

Holy ! thrice holy ! in our ears : — 
2 Yet God is present in this place, 

Yeil'd in serener majesty; 
So full of glory, truth, and grace. 
That faith alone such light can see. 



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3 Nor, as he in the temple taught, 

Is Christ witliin these walls reveal'd, 
When blind, and deaf, and dumb were brought, 
Lepers and lame — and all were heal'd : — 

4 Yet here, when two or three shall meet, 
Or thronfyinfj multitudes are found, 

All may sit down at Jesus' feet, 

And hear from him the joyful sound. 

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The promised blessing. 

SEE, Jesus, thy disciples see ; 
The promised blessing give ; 
Met in thy name, we look to thee, 
Expecting to receive. 

2 Thee we expect, our faithful Lord, 
Who in thy name are join'd ; 

We wait, according to thy word, 
Thee in the midst to find. 

3 With us thou art assembled here. 
But 0, thyself reveal ; 

Son of the hving God, appear ! 
Let us thy presence feel. 

4 Breathe on us. Lord, in this our day. 
And these dry bones shall live; 

Speak peace into our hearts, and say. 
The Holy Ghost receive. 

5 Whom now we seek, O may we meet, 
Jesus, the crucified ; 

Show us thy bleeding hands and feet, 
Thou who for us hast died. 

6 Cause us the record to receive — 
Speak, and the tokens show — 

"0 be not faithless, but believe 
In me, who died for you." 



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Claiming the promise, 

JESUS, we look to thee, 
Thy promised presence claim; 
Thou in the midst of us shalt be, 
Assembled in thy name : . 

2 Thy name salvation is, 
Which here we come to prove : 

Thy name is life, and health, and peace, 
And everlasting love. 

3 Not in the name of pride ' 
Or selfishness we meet ; 

From nature's paths we turn aside. 
And worldly thoughts forget. 

4 We meet the grace to take. 
Which thou hast freely given; . 

We meet on earth for thy dear sake, 
That we may meet in heaven. 

5 Present we know thou art. 
But 0, thyself reveal ! 

Now, Lord, let every bounding heart 
The mighty comfort feel. 

6 may thy quick'ning voice 
The death of sin remove ; 

And bid our inmost souls rejoice, 
In hope of perfect love. 

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God is in this place, 

LO ! God is here ! let us adore, 
And own how dreadful is this place; 
Let all within us feel his power. 

And silent bow before his face ; 
Who know his power, his grace who prove, 
Serve him with awe, with rev'rence love. 



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2 Lo ! God is here ! him day and night 
United choirs of angels sing : 

To him, enthroned above all height, 

Heaven's host their noblest praises bring : 
Disdain not. Lord, our meaner song. 
Who praise thee with a stamm'ring tongue. 

3 Being of beings ! may our praise 

Thy courts with grateful fragrance fill ; 
Still may we stand before thy face. 

Still hear and do thy sovereign will ; 
To thee may all our thoughts arise, 
Ceaseless, accepted sacrifice. 

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The presence and grace of Jesus. 

OTHOU who art the Light 
Of all thy saints below, 
That we may worship thee aright, 
Thy sovereign grace bestow. 

2 Our rising world obey'd 

Thy Godhead's high command: 
And all the heavenly host are sway'd 
By thy creating hand. 

3 Yet all things made anew 
To wond'rinof mortals seem, 

When the Eternal Word we view 
Descendinor to redeem. 

o 

4 0, be thou present now, 
And make thy mercy known. 

While at thy footstool. Lord, we bow, * 
And our Deliverer own. 

5 Then shall we live to thee, 
And honour this thy day; 

Tliine own devoted servants be, 
And never from thee stray. 



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A blessing on the toord. 

ONCE more we come before our God; 
Once more his blessing ask: 
may not duty seem a load, 
Nor worship prove a task. 

2 Father, thy quick'ning Spirit send 
From heaven, in Jesus' name, 

And bid our waiting minds attend, 
And put our souls in frame. 

3 May we receive the word we hear. 
Each in an honest heart ; 

And keep the precious treasure there, 
And never with it part. 

4 To seek thee, all our hearts dispose; 
To each thy blessings suit; 

And let the seed thy servant sows, 
Produce abundant fruit. 

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GodPs service delightful. 

WITH joy we hail the sacred day, 
Which God has call'd his own ; 
With joy the summons we obey. 
To worship at his throne. 

2 Thy chosen temple. Lord, how fair ! 
As here thy servants throng 

To breathe the humble, fervent prayer. 
And pour the grateful song. 

3 Spirit of grace ! deign to dwell 
Within thy Church below; 

Make her in holiness excel. 
With pure devotion glow. 

4 Let peace within her walls be found — 
Let all her sons unite. 

To spread with holy zeal around. 
Her clear and shining light. 



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6 Great God, we hail the sacred day 
Which thou hast call'd tliine own; 

With joy tlie summons we obey, 
To worsliip at thy throne. 

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God's glorious perfections celebrated. 

GLORY be to God on high, 
God, whose glory fills the sky ; 
Peace on earth to man forgiven, 
Man, the well-beloved of Heaven. 

2 Sovereign Father, heavenly King, 
Thee we now presume to sing ; 
Glad thine attributes confess, 
Glorious all, and numberless. 

3 Hail, by all thy works adored ! 
Hail, the everlastino- Lord ! 

Thee with thankful hearts we prove, 
God of power, and God of love. 

4 Christ our Lord and God we own, 
Christ, the Father's only Son; 
Lamb of God for sinners slain, 
Saviour of oftending man. 

5 Jesus, in thy name we pray. 
Take, take our sins away ; 
Bow thine ear, in mercy bow. 
Hear, the world's atonement. Thou! 

6 Hear, for thou, O Christ, alone. 
Art with thy great Father one ; 
One the Holy Ghost with thee ; 
One supreme eternal Three. 

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Humble adoration, 

HEAVENLY Father, sovereign Lord, 
Be thy glorious Name adored. 
Lord, thy mercies never fail ; 
Hail, celestial Goodness, hail ! 



INTRODUCTORY. 

2 Though unworthy of thine ear, 
Deign our humble songs to hear; 
Purer praise we hope to bring, 
When around thy throne we sing. 

3 While on earth ordain'd to stay, 
Guide our footsteps in thy way, 
Till we come to dwell with thee, 
Till we all thy gloiy see. 

4 Then, with angel-harps again. 
We will wake a nobler strain; 
There, in joyful songs of praise. 
Our triumphant voices raise. 

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Tlie fatness of God. 

BEING of beings, God of love, 
To thee our hearts we raise ; 
Thy all-sustaining power we prove, 
And gladly sing thy praise. 

2 Thine, wholly thine, we pant to be ; 
Our sacrifice receive : 

Made, and presei-ved, and saved by thee 
To thee ourselves we give. 

3 Heavenward our every wish aspires, 
For all thy mercy's store; 

The sole return thy love requires. 
Is that we ask for more. 

4 For more we ask ; we open then 
Our hearts to' embrace thy will; 

Turn, and revive us, Lord, again ; 
With all thy fulness fill. 

5 Come, Holy Ghost, the Saviour's love 
Shed in our hearts abroad ; 

So shall we ever live, and mov^ 
And be, with Christ in God. 



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Heavenly joy anticipated. 

IN thy name, Lord, assembling, 
We, thy people, now draw near : 
Teach us to rejoice with trembling; 
Speak, and let thy servants hear: 

Hear with meekness, — 
Hear thy word with godly fear. 

2 While our days on earth are lengthened, 
May we give them. Lord, to thee : 

Cheer'd by hope, and daily strengthen'd, 
May we run, nor weaiy be ; 

Till tliy glory 
Without cloud in heaven we see. 

3 There, in worship purer, sweeter, 
All thy people shall adore; 

Sharing then in raptui'e greater 
Than they could conceive before : 

Full enjoyment, — 
Full and pure, for evermore. 

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Hdy^ holy^ holy, Loi'd God of Sabaoth. 

TNFINITE God, to thee we raise 

X Our hearts in solemn songs of praise ; 

By all thy works on earth adored. 

We worship thee, the common Lord; 

The everlasting Father own. 

And bow our souls before thy throne. 

2 Thee all the choir of angels sings. 
The Lord of hosts, the King of kings ; 
Cherubs proclaim thy praise aloud. 
And seraphs shout the triune God; 
And Holy, holy, holy, cry, 
Thy glory fills both earth and sky. 



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3 Father of endless majesty, 
All might and love we render thee ; 
Thy true and only Son adore, 
The same in dignity and power; 
And God the Holy Ghost declare, 
The saints' eternal Comforter. 

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The Lord our righteousness, 

IN thy presence we appear; 
Lord! we love to worship here. 
When, within the veil, we meet 
Thee upon thy mercy-seat. 

2 While thy glorious Name is sung, 
Touch our lips, and loose our tongue ; 
Then our joyful souls shall bless 
Thee, the Lord our righteousness. 

3 While to thee our prayers ascend, 
Let thine ear in love attend ; 

Hear, for Jesus intercedes ; 
Hear us, for thy Spirit pleads. 

4 While thy word is heard with awe. 
And we tremble at thy law. 

Let thy Gospel's wondrous love 
Every doubt and fear remove. 

5 While thy ministers proclaim 
Peace and pardon through thy name. 
In their voices let us own 

Jesus, speaking from the throne. 

6 From thy house when we return. 
Let our hearts witliin us burn ; 
That at evening we may say, — 
We have walk'd with God to-day. 



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Universal adoration. 

OHOLY, holy, holy Lord ! 
Thou God of hosts, by all adored : 
The earth and heavens are full of thee, 
Tliy light, thy power, thy majesty. 

2 Loud hallelujahs to thy Name, 
Angels and seraphim proclaim: 

By all the powers and thrones in heaven. 
Eternal praise to thee is given. 

3 Apostles join the glorious throng. 
And swell the loud triumphant song: 
Prophets and martyrs hear the sound. 
And spread the hallelujah round. 

4 Glory to thee, God most high ! 
Father, we praise thy majesty : 
The Son, the Spirit, we adore ; 
One Godhead, blest f • evermore. 

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The sacrific • f praise. 

VITH joy we lilt our eyes 
To those bright realms above, 
That glorious temple in the skies. 
Where dwells eternal Love. 

2 Before thy throne we bow, 
O thou almighty King ; 

Here we present the solemn vow, 
And hymns of praise we sing. 

3 While in thy house we kneel, 
With trust and holy fear. 

Thy mercy and thy truth reveal, 
And lend a gracious ear. 

4 Lord, teach our hearts to pray, 
And tune our lips to sing; 

Nor from thy presence cast away 
The sacrifice we brinof. 



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The Desire of all imtions 

COME, thou Desire of all thy saints, 
Our humble strains attend, 
While, with our praises and complaints. 
Low at thy feet we bend. 

2 How should our songs, like those above, 
With warm devotion rise; 

How should our souls, on wings of love. 
Mount upward to the skies. 

3 Come, Lord, thy love alone can raise 
In us the heavenly flame ; 

Then shall our lips resound thy praise. 
Our hearts adore thy name. 

4 Now, Saviour, let thy glory shine. 
And fill thy dwellings here. 

Till life, and love, and joy divine, 
A heaven on earth appear. 

5 Then shall our hearts enraptured say, — 
Come, great Redeemer, come. 

And bring the bright, the glorious day, 
That calls thy children home. 

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Peax^e^ power ^ and love. 

ALL thanks to the Lamb, who gives us to meet : 
His love we proclaim, his praises repeat : 
We own him our Jesus, continually near. 
To pardon, and bless us, and perfect us here. 

2 In him we have peace> in him we have power. 
Preserved by his grace throughout the dark hour , 
In all our temptation he keeps us, to prove 

His utmost salvation, his fulness of love. 

3 Pronounce the glad word, and bid us be free : 
Ah ! hast thou not. Lord, a blessing for me ? 
The peace thou hast given, this moment impart, 
And open thy heaven, Love, in my heart. 



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Infinite grace. 
TNFINITE excellence is thine, 
JL Thou gloiious Prince of grace ! 
Thy uncreated beauties shine 
With never-fading rays. 

2 Sinners, from earth's remotest end. 
Come bending at thy feet; 

To thee their prayers and songs ascend, 
In thee their wishes meet. 

3 MilUons of happy spirits hve 
On thy exhaustless store ; 

From thee they all their bliss receive, 
And still thou givest more. 

4 Thou art their triumph and their joy ; 
Tliey find their all in thee; 

Thy glories will their tongues employ 
Through all eternity. 

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The great and effectual door. 

JESUS, thou all-redeeming Lord, 
Thy blessing we implore ; 
Open the door to preach thy word. 
The great, effectual door. 

2 Gather the outcasts in, and save 
From sin and Satan's power; 

And let them now acceptance have. 
And know their gracious hour. 

3 Lover of souls ! thou know'st to prize 
What thou hast bought so dear : 

Come, then, and in thy people's eyes 
With all thy wounds appear. 

4 Appear, as when of old confess'd, 
Tlie suff 'ring Son of God ; 

And let us see thee in thy vest. 
But newly dipp'd in blood. 



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6 The hardness of our hearts remoye. 

Thou who for all hast died : 
Show us the tokens of thy love. 

Thy feet, thy hands, thy side. 

6 Ready thou art the blood to' apply, 

And prove the record true : 
And all thy wounds to sinners cry, 

I suffered this for you. 

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Speak our sins Jbrgiven. 

FATHER of everlasting grace, 
Be mindful of thy changeless word ; 
We worship toward that holy place, 

In which thou dost thy name record ; 
Dost make thy gracious nature known. 
That hving temple of thy Son. 

2 Thou dost with sweet complacence see 
The temple filFd with light divine ; 

And art thou not well pleased with me, 
Wlio, turning to that heavenly shrine. 
Through Jesus to thy throne apply, 
Through Jesus for acceptance cry? 

3 With all who for redemption groan. 
Father, in Jesus' name we pray ; 

And still we cry and wrestle on, 
Till mercy take our sins away : 
Hear from thy dwelling-place in heaven. 
And now pronounce our sins forgiven. 

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With such saci'ifices God is well pleased, 

FATHER, behold, with gracious eyes, 
The souls before thy throne, 
Wlio now present their sacrifice, 
And seek thee in thy Son. 



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2 Well pleased in him thyself declare 
Thy pard'ning love reveal; 

The peaceful answer of our prayer. 
On every conscience seal. 

3 Meanest of all thy servants, I 
Those happier spirits meet, 

And mix with theirs my feeble ciy. 
And worship at thy feet, 

4 On me, on all, some gift bestow. 
Some blessing now impart ; 

The seed of hfe eternal sow, 
. In every waiting heart. 

5 Thy loving, powerful Spirit shed, 
Speak thou our sins forgiven, 

And hasten through the lump to spread 
The sanctifying leaven. 

6 Refresh us with a ceaseless shower 
Of graces from above. 

Till all receive the perfect power 
Of everlasting love. 

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God, the only object of worship. 

OGOD, our strength, to thee om* song 
With grateful hearts we raise ; 
To thee, and thee alone, belong 
All worship, love, and praise. 

2 In trouble's dark and stonny hour, 
Thine ear hath heard our prayer ; 

And graciously thine arm of power 
Hath saved us from despair. 

3 And thou, ever gracious Lord, 
Wilt keep thy promise still. 

If, meekly heark*nmg to thy word, 
We seek to do thy will. 



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4 Led by the light thy grace imparts, 

Ne'er may we bow the knee 
To idols, which our wayward hearts 

Set up instead of tJiee. 
6 So shall thy choicest gifts, O Lord, 

Thy faithful people bless ; 
For them shall earth its stores afford, 

And heaven its happiness. 

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The heavenly Pattern. 

APPOINTED by thee, we meet in thy name, 
And meekly agree to follow the Lamb; 
To trace tliy example, tlie woi*ld to disdain. 
And constantly trample on pleasure and pain. 

2 O what shall we do our Saviour to love? 
To make us anew, come. Lord, from above : 
The fruit of thy passion, tliy holiness give ; 
Give us the salvation of all that believe. 

3 O Jesus ! appear ; no longer delay, 
To sanctify here, and bear us away ; 

The end of our meeting on earth let us seo •- 
Triumphantly sitting in glory with thee. 

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Jesus everywhere present. 

JESUS, where'er thy people meet. 
There they behold thy mercy-seat; 
Where'er they seek thee, thou art found. 
And every place is hallow 'd ground. 

2 For thou, within no walls confined. 
Dost dwell with those of humble mind ; 
Such ever bring thee where they come, 
And, going, take thee to their home. 

3 Great Shepherd of thy chosen few. 
Thy former mercies here renew; 
Here, to our waiting hearts, proclaim 
The sweetness of thy saving name. 



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For a general blessing. 

LORD, we come before thee now, 
At thy feet we humbly bow ; 
0, do not our suit disdain; 
Shall we seek thee, Lord, in vain? 

2 Lord, on thee our souls depend; 
In compassion now descend ; 

Fill our hearts with thy rich grace. 
Tune our hps to sing thy praise. 

3 Send some message from thy word. 
That may joy and peace aflford ; 

Let thy Spirit now impart 
Full salvation to each heart. 

4 Comfort those who weep and moum ; 
Let the time of joy return ; 

Those that are cast down lift up ; 
Make them strong in faith and hope. 

5 Grant that all may seek and find 
Thee, a gracious God and kind : 
Heal the sick, the captive free ; 
Let us all rejoice in thee. 

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The God of Bethel. 

OGOD of Bethel, by whose hand 
Thy people still are fed. 
Who, through this weary pilgrimage, 
Hast all our fathers led : — 

2 Our vows, our prayers, we now present. 
Before thy throne of grace : 

God of our fathers ! be the God 
Of their succeeding race. 

3 Through each perplexing path of life, 
Our ward'ring footsteps guide; 

Give us each day our daily bread, 
And all we need provide. 



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4 spread thy cov'ring wings around. 
Till all our wanderings cease. 

And at our Father's loved abode. 
Our souls arrive in peace. 

5 Such blessings, from thy gracious hand. 
Our humble prayers implore; 

And thou shalt be our chosen God, 
Our portion evermore. 

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The bond of love. 

PRAISE waits in Zion, Lord, for thee ; 
Thy saints adore thy holy Name ; 
Thy creatures bend the' obedient knee, 
And, humbly, now thy presence claim. 

2 Eternal Source of truth and hght, 
To thee we look, on thee we call ; 

Lord, we are nothing in thy sight. 
But thou to us art all in all. 

3 Still may thy children in thy word 
Their common trust and refuge see ; 

0, bind us to each other. Lord, 

By one great bond, — ^the love of thee. 

4 So shall our sun of hope arise. 
With brighter still and brighter ray. 

Till thou shalt bless our longing eyes 
With beams of everlasting day. 

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Divine guidance and safety, 

BEFORE thy mercy-seat, Lord, 
Behold, thy servants stand. 
To ask the knowledge of thy word. 

The guidance of thy hand. 
2 Let thy eternal truths, we pray, 

Dwell richly in each heart; 
That from the safe and narrow way 
We never may depart. 



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3 Lord, from thy word remove lAe seal, 
Unfold its hidden store; 

And as we h6ar, may we feel 
Its value more and more. 

4 Help lis to see the Saviour's love 
Beaming from every page ; 

And let the thoughts of joys above 
Our inmost souls engage. 

5 Thus while thy word our footsteps guides, 
Shall we be truly blest; 

And safe anive where love provides 
An everlasting rest. 

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Confession^ prayer^ and praise. 

LOUD ! when we bend before thy throne, 
And our confessions pour, 
O may we feel the sins we own. 
And hate what we deplore. 

2 Our contrite spirits pitying see; 
True penitence impart: 

And let a healing ray from thee 
Beam peace into each heart. 

3 Wlien we disclose our wants in prayer, 
let our wills resign ; 

And not a thought our bosom share. 
Which is not wholly thine. 

4 And when with heart and voice we strive 
Our grateful hymns to raise, 

Let love divine within us hve, 
And fill our souls with praise. 

5 Then, on thy glories while we dwell, 
Thy mercies we'll review; 

With love divine, transported, tell — 
Thou, God, art Father too! 



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Grace, pardon, life. 

FATHER of heaven, whose love profound 
A ransom for our souls hath found, 
Before thy throne we sinners bend ; 
To us thy pard'nmg love extend. 

2 Almighty Son, incarnate Word, • 
Our Prophet, Priest, Redeemer, Lord ! 
Before thy throne we sinners bend; 
To us thy saving grace extend. 

3 Eternal Spirit, by whose breath 
The soul is raised from sin and death, 
Before thy throne we sinners bend ; 
To us thy quick'ning power extend. 

4 Jehovah ! Father, Spirit, Son, 
Mysterious Godhead ! Three in One ! 
Before thy throne we sinners bend ; 
Grace, pardon, life, to us extend. 

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True worship everywhere accepted. 

OTHOU, to whom, in ancient time, 
The psalmist's sacred harp was strung, 
Whom kings adored in song sublime. 

And prophets praised with glowing tongue :- 

2 Not now on Zion's height alone 
The favour'd worshipper may dwell, 

Nor where, at sultry noon, thy Son 
Sat weary by the patriarch's well. 

3 From every place below the skies. 
The grateful song, the fervent prayer. 

The incense of the heart, may rise 
To heaven, and find acceptance there. 

4 thou, to whom, in ancient time. 
The holy prophet's harp was strung ; 

To thee, at last, in every clime, 

Shall temples rise, and praise be sung 



THE DIVINE PERFECTIONS. 



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Chd seen in his works. 

THERE is a God — all nature speaks. 
Through earth, and air, and seas, and skies ; 
See — from the clouds his glory breaks. 
When earliest beams of morning rise. 

2 The rising sun, serenely bright. 
Throughout the world's extended frame. 

Inscribes, in characters of light, 
His mighty Maker's glorious name. 

3 Ye curious minds, who roam abroad. 
And trace creation's wonders o'er. 

Confess the footsteps of your God ; 
Bow down before him and adore. 

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27ie heavens declare his glory. 

THE spacious firmament on high. 
With all the blue ethereal sky, 
And spangled heavens, a shining frame, 
Their great Original proclaim : 
The' unwearied sun, from day to day, 
Doth his Creator's power display. 
And pubhshes to every land 
The work of an Almighty Hand. 

2 Soon as the evening shades prevail. 
The moon takes up the wondrous tale, 
And nightly ,*i to the list'ning earth. 
Repeats the story of her birth ; 
While all the stars that round her bum. 
And all the planets in then* turn, 
Confiim the tidings as they roll, 
And spread the truth from pole to pole. 



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3 What, though in solemn silence all 
Move round the dark terrestrial ball ; 
What, though no real voice nor sound 
Amid the radiant orbs be found; 
In reason's ear they all rejoice, 
And utter forth a glorious voice ; 
Forever singing as tliey sliine, 
The Hand that made us is divine. 

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All his works praise him. 

THERE seems a voice in every gale, 
A tongue in every flower, 
Which tells, Lord, the wondrous tale 

Of thy almighty power ; 
The birds, that rise on quiv'ring "sving. 

Proclaim their Maker's praise. 
And all the mingling sounds of spring 

To thee an anthem raise. 
2 Shall I be mute, great God, alone 

'Midst nature's loud acclaim? 
Shall not my heart, with answ'ring tone, 

Breathe forth thy holy name? 
All nature's debt is small to mine, 

Nature shall cease to be ; 
Thou gavest — proof of love divine — 

Immortal life to me. 

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Jlis name is gloricms. 

ALMIGHTY Maker, God, 
How glorious is thy Name ; 
Thy wonders how diffused, abroad. 

Throughout creation's frame. 
2 In native white and red 
The rose and lily stand. 
And, free from pride, their beauties spread, 
To show thy skilful hand. 



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3 The lark mounts up the sky. 
With unambitious song; 

And bears her Maker's praise on high, 
Upon her artless tongue. 

4 Fain would I rise and smg 
To my Creator too ; 

Fain would my heart adore my King, 
And give him praises due. 

5 Let joy and worship spend 
The remnant of my days : 

And to my God my soul ascend. 
In sweet perfumes of praise. 

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Heaven and earth are full of Ms glory, 

ETERNAL Wisdom ! thee we praise. 
Thee the creation sings : 
With thy loved name, rocks, hills, and seas. 
And heaven's high palace, rings. 

2 Thy hand, how wide it spreads the sky. 
How glorious to behold ! 

Tinged with a blue of heavenly dye. 
And starred ^vith sparkling gold. 

3 There thou hast bid the globes of light 
Their endless circuits run : 

There the pale planet rules the night; 
The day obeys the sun, 

4 Thy glories blaze all nature round. 
And strike the wond'ring sight, 

Through skies, and seas, and solid ground. 
With terror and delight. 

5 Infinite strength, and equal skill. 
Shine through thy works abroad: 

Our souls with vast amazement fill. 
And speak the builder God! 



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6 But the mild glories of thy grace, 

Our softer passions move : 
Pity divine, in Jesus' face. 

We see, adore, and love. 

69 . CM. 

AU things created for his glory, 

GREAT First of beings ! mighty Lord 
Of all this wondrous frame. 
Produced by thy creating word. 
The world from nothing came. 

2 Lord, for thy glory shines the whole ; 
It all reflects thy light : 

For this the planets ceaseless roll, 
And day succeeds the night. 

3 For this the earth its produce yields ; 
For this the waters flow; 

And blooming plants adorn' the fields, 
And trees and herbage grow. 

4 Inspired with praise, may we pursue 
This wise and noble end. 

That all we think, or say, or do. 
Shall to thy glory tend. 

70 C. M. 

TTie God of nature and of grace. 

THE God of nature and of grace 
In all his works appears ; 
His goodness through the earth we trace. 
His grandeur in the spheres. 

2 Behold this fair and fertile globe, 
By him in wisdom planned; 

*Twas he who girded, like a robe, 
The ocean round the land. 

3 Lift to the arch of heaven your eye ; 
Thither his path pursue ; 

His gloiy, boundless as the sky, 
O'erwhelms the wond'rinQ: view. 



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4 How excellent, Lord, thy name, 
In all creation's lines : 

Spread through eternity, thy fame 
With rising lustre shines. 

5 These lower works that swell thy praise. 
High as our thoughts can tower, 

Are but a portion of thy ways, — 
The hiding of thy power. 

6 Milhons before thy presence stand, 
Who feel, while they adore, 

Fulness of joy at thy right hand. 
And pleasures evermore. 

71 CM. 

His greatness and condescension, 

OLORD, our King, how excellent 
Thy name on earth is known; 
Thy glory in the firmament, 
How wonderfully shown! 

2 When I behold the heavens on high, 
The work of thy right hand ; 

The moon and stars amid the sky. 
Thy Ughts in every land : — 

3 Lord ! what is man that thou shouldst deign 
On him to set thy love. 

Give him on earth a while to reign, 
Then fill a throne above? 

4 Lord, how excellent thy name ; 
How manifold thy ways ! 

Let time thy saving truth proclaim. 
Eternity thy praise. 

72 C. M. 

His glory and majesty, 

OGOD, we praise thee, and confess 
That thou the only Lord 
And everlasting Father art, 
By all the earth adored. 



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2 To thee all angels cry aloud ; 
To thee the powers on high^ 

Both cherubim and seraphim, 
Continually do cry; — 

3 holy, holy, holy Lord, 
Whom heavenly hosts obey. 

The world is with the glory fill'd 
Of thy majestic sway. 

4 The' apostles' glorious company. 
And prophets crown'd with light. 

With all the martyrs' noble host. 
Thy constant praise recite. 

5 The holy Church throughout the world, 
O Lord, confesses thee. 

That thou eternal Father art. 
Of boundless majesty. 

73 L. M. 

Wisdom, majesty y goodness, 

FATHER of all, whose powerful voice 
Caird forth this universal frame ! 
Whose mercies over all rejoice. 

Through endless ages still the same : 
Thou by thy word upholdest all ; 

Thy bounteous love to all is show'd ; 
Thou hear'st thy every creature's call, 
And fillest every mouth with good. 

2 In heaven thou reign'st enthroned in light, 

Nature's expanse before thee spread ; 
Earth, air, and sea, before thy sight, 

And hell's deep gloom, are open laid : 
Wisdom, and might, and love, are thine; 

Prostrate before thy face we fall, 
Confess thine attributes divine. 

And hail thee sovereign Lord of all. 



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74 C. M. 

Universal sovereignty, 

THE Lord descended from above, 
And bow'd the heavens most high, 
And imdemeath his feet he cast 
The darkness of the sky. 

2 On cherubim and seraphim 
Full royally he rode. 

And on the wings of mighty winds, 
Came flying all abroad. 

3 He sat serene upon the floods. 
Their fury to restrain ; 

And he, as sov'reign Lord and King, 
For evermore shall reign. 

75 1st P. M. 6 lineu 8s. 

Omnipotence and immutability. 

WHEN Israel out of Egypt came, 
And left the proud oppressor's land, 
Supported by the great I AM, 

Safe in the hollow of his hand, 
The Lord in Israel reign' d alone, 
And Judah was his fav'rite throne. 

2 The sea beheld his power, and fled, 
Disparted by the wondrous rod ; 

Jordan ran backward to its head, 

And Smai felt the' incumbent God ; 
The mountains skipp'd like frighten'd rams, 
The hills leap'd after them as lambs. 

3 What ail'd thee, thou trembling sea? 
What horror tum'd the river back? 

Was nature's God displeased with thee ? 

And why should hills or mountains shake ? 
Ye mountains huge, that skipp'd like rams? 
Ye hills, that leap'd as frighten'd lambs? 



52 THE DIVINE PERFECTIONS. 

4 Earth, tremble on, with all thy sons, 
In presence of thy awful Lord, 

Whose power inverted nature owns, 
Her only law his sovereign word: 
He shakes the centre with his rod. 
And heaven bows down to Jacob's God. 

5 Creation, varied by his hand. 
The' omnipotent Jehovah knows ; 

The sea is turn'd to sohd land, 

The rock into a fountam flows : 
And all things, as they change, proclaim 
The Lord eternally the same. 

76 S. M. 

Creator of soul and body. 

ALL-CREATING God, 
At whose supreme decree 
My body rose, a breathing clod, — 
My soul sprang forth from thee: 
2 For this thou hast design'd, 

And form'd me man for this — 
To know and love thyself, and find 
In thee my endless bUss. 

77 3d P. M. 4 6s & 2 8s. 

Greatness and condescension. 

THE Lord Jehovah reigns. 
His throne is built on high ; 
The garments he assumes 
Are hght and majesty : 
His glories shine with beams so bright, 
No mortal eye can bear the sight. 
2 The thunders of his hand 

Keep the wide world in awe; 
His wi^ath and justice stand 
To guard his holy law; 
And where his love resolves to bless, 
His truth confirms and seals the grace. 



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3 Through all his mighty works 
Amazing wisdom shines ; 

Confounds the powers of hell, ^ 

And all their dark designs; 
Strong is his arm, and shall fulfil 
His great decrees and sovereign will. 

4 And will this sovereign King 
Of glory condescend ; — 

And will he write his name, 
My Father and my Friend? 

1 love his Name, I love his word; 
Join all my powers to praise the Lord. 

78 L. M. 

Omnipotence and wisdom. 

COME, my soul, in sacred lays. 
Attempt thy great Creator's praise : 
But 0, what tongue can speak his fame ? 
What mortal verse can reach the theme ? 

2 Enthroned amid the radiant spheres. 
He glory hke a garment wears ; 

To form a robe of Kght divine, 

Ten thousand suns around him shine. 

3 In all our Maker's grand designs, 
Omnipotence, with wisdom, sliines; 

His works, through all this wondrous frame. 
Declare the glory of his Name. 

4 Raised on devotion's lofty wing. 
Do thou, my soul, his glories sing; 
And let his praise employ thy tongue, 
Till list'ning worlds shall join the song. 

79 c. M. 

Majesty and power. 

THE Lord our God is clothed with might. 
The winds obey his will ; 
He speaks, and in his heavenly height 
The rolling: sun stands still. 



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2 Rebel, ye waves, and o'er the land 
With threatening aspect roar; 

The Lord uphfts his awful hand, 
And chains you to the shore. 

3 Ye winds of night, your force combine 
Without his high behest. 

Ye shall not, in the mountain-pine. 
Disturb the sparrow's nest. 

4 His voice subUme is heard afar; 
In distant peals it dies ; 

He yokes the whu'lwind to his car. 
And sweeps the howling skies. 

5 Ye sons of earth, in reverence bend ; 
Ye nations, wait his nod ; 

And let unceasing praise ascend 
In honour of our God. 

80 L. M 

Omnipotence and grace, 

THE earth, with all her fulness, owns 
Jehovah for her sovereign Lord ; 
The countless myriads of her sons 
Rose into being at his word. 

2 His word did out of nothing call 
The world, and founded all that is ; 

Launched on the floods this solid ball, 
And fix'd it in the floating seas. 

3 But who shall quit this low abode — 
Who shall ascend the heavenly place, 

And stand upon the mount of God, 
And see his Maker face to face ? 

4 The man whose hands and heart are clean 
That blessed portion shall receive ; 

He who by grace is saved from sin. 
Shall with his God in glory live : — 



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6 He shall obtain the starry crown ; 

And, number'd with the saints above. 
The God of his salvation own, 

The God of his salvation love. 

81 S. M. 

Bounteous in mercy and goodness, 

MY Maker and my King, 
To thee my all I owe ; 
Thy sovereign bounty is the spring 
Whence all my blessings flow. 

2 The creature of thy hand, 
On thee alone I live ; 

My God, thy benefits demand 
More praise than I can give. 

3 0, let thy grace inspire 

My soul with strength divine ; 
Let all my powers to thee aspire, 
And all my days be thine. 

82 L. M. 

From everlasting to everlasting, 

ERE mountains rear'd their forms sublime. 
Or heaven and earth in order stood, 
Before the birth of ancient time. 
From everlasting thou art God. 

2 A thousand ages, in their flight. 
With thee are as a fleeting day ; 

Past, present, future, to thy sight 
At once their various scenes display. 

3 But our brief life's a shadowy dream, 
A passing thought, that soon is o'er, — 

That fades with morning's earliest beam, ,! 

And fills the musing mind no more. ] 

4 To us, O Lord, the wisdom give, v 
Each passing moment so to spend, i 

That we at length with thee may live I 

Where life and bhss shall never end. ? 



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83 c. M. 

Omniscience. 

LORD, all I am is known to thee ; 
In vain my soul would try- 
To shun thy presence, or to flee 
The notice of thine eye. 

2 Tliy all-surrounding sight surveys 
My rising and my rest, 

My public walks, my private ways, 
The secrets of my breast. 

3 My thoughts lie open to thee, Lord, 
Before they're form'd within, 

And ere my lips pronounce the word. 
Thou know'st the sense I mean. 

4 wondrous knowledge ! deep and high ' 
Where can a creature hide ? 

Within thy circling arms I he, 
Beset on every side. 

5 So let thy grace surround me still, 
And hke a bulwark prove, 

To guard my soul from every ill, 
Secured by sovereign love. 

84 c. M. 

Omniscience and omnipresence. 

FATHER of spirits, nature's God, 
Our thoughts are known to thee ; 
Thou, Lord, canst hear each idle word. 
And every action see. 

2 Could we, on mornmg's swiftest wings, 
Fly through the trackless air. 

Or dive beneath deep ocean's springs. 
Thy presence would be there. 

3 In vain may guilt attempt to fly, 
Conceal'd by darkest night; 

One glance from thy all-piercing eye 
Can bring it all to hght. 



THE DIVINE PERFECTIONS. 57 

4 Search thou our hearts, and there destroy 

Each secret bosom sin, 
And fit US for those realms of joy, 

That we may enter in. 

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Immutahility. 

THIS, this is the God we adore. 
Our faithful, imchangeable friend, 
Whose love is as great as his power, 

And neither knows measure nor end : 
'Tis Jesus, the first and the last. 

Whose Spirit shall guide us safe home ; 
We'll praise him for all that is past. 
And trust him for all that's to come. 

86 ... L. M. 

Infinite in wisdom. 

PRAISE ye the Lord ! 'tis good to raise 
Your hearts and voices in his praise : 
His nature and his works invite 
To make this duty our dehght. 

2 He form'd the stars, those heavenly flames; 
He counts their numbers, calls their names ; 
His wisdom 's vast, and knows no bound, — 
A deep where all our thoughts are drown'd. 

3 Sing to the Lord ! exalt him high. 
Who spreads the clouds along the sky; 
There he prepares the fruitful rain. 
Nor lets the drops descend in vain. 

4 He makes the grass the hills adorn; 
He clothes the smihng fields with com; 
The beasts with food his hands supply. 
And the young ravens when they cry. 

5 What is the creature's skill or force ? 
The sprightly man, or warhke horse? 
The piercing wit, the active limb ? 

All are too mean delights for him. 



58 THE DIVINE PERFECTIONS. 

6 But saints are lovely in his sight ; 

He views his children with delight: 

He sees their hope, he knows their fear, "* 

He looks, and loves his image there, 

87 1st P. M. 6 lines 8s. 
Infinite condescension, 

OGOD, of good the' nnfathom'd sea, 
Who would not give his heart to thee ! 
Who would not love thee with his might! 
Jesus, lover of mankind. 
Who would not his whole soul and mind. 
With aU his strength, to thee unite ! 

2 Thou shin'st with everlasting rays ; 
Before the' insufferable blaze 

Angels with both wings veil their eyes ; 
Yet free as air thy bounty streams ; 
On all thy works thy mercy's beams, 

Diffusive as thy sun's, arise. 

3 Astonish'd at thy frowning brow, 
Earth, hell, and heaven's strong pillars bow: 

Terrible majesty is thine ! 
Who then can that vast love express. 
Which bows thee down to me, — who less 

Than nothing am, till thou art mine ! 

4 High throned on heaven's eternal hill, 
In number, weight, and measure, still 

Thou sweetly ord'rest all that is ; 
And yet thou deign'st to come to me, 
And guide my steps, that I, with thee 

Enthroned, may reign in endless bliss. 

88 L. M. 

Wisdom, justice, truth. 

THINE, Lord, is wisdom, thine alone ! 
Justice and truth before thee stand: 
Yet, nearer to thy sacred throne, 
Mercy withholds thy lifted hand. 



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2 Each evening shows thy tender love; 
Each rising mom thy plenteous grace: 

Thy waken'd wrath doth slowly move ; 
Thy vidlling mercy flies apace. 

3 To thy benign, indulgent care, 
Father, this hght, this breath we owe ; 

And all we have, and all we are. 

From thee, great Source of being, flow. 

4 Thrice Holy ! thine the kingdom is. 
The power omnipotent is thine ; 

And when created nature dies, 
Thy never-ceasing glories sliine. 

89 c. M. 

Goodness and mercy. 

LET every tongue thy goodness speak, 
Thou sovereign Lord of all ; 
Thy strength'ning hands uphold the weak. 
And raise the poor that fall. 

2 When soitows bow the spirit down. 
When virtue hes distressed, 

Beneath the proud oppressor's frown. 
Thou giv'st the mourner rest. 

3 Thou know'st the pains thy servants feel. 
Thou hear'st thy children's cry ; 

ALud their best wishes to fulfil, 
Thy grace is ever nigh. 

4 Thy- mercy never shall remove 
From men of heaii; sincere : 

Thou sav'st the souls whose humble love 
Is join'd with holy fear. 

5 My Ups shall dwell upon thy praise. 
And spread thy fame abroad ; 

Let all the sons of Adam raise 
The honours of their God. 



60 THE Dirms perfections. 

90 S. M. 

The only wise God. 

THOU, the eternal Lord, 
Art high above our thought ; 
And woi-thy to be fear'd, adored. 

By all thy hands have wrought : 
None can with thee compare, 

Thy glory fills the sky ; 
And all created beings are 
As nothing in thine eye. 

2 Of thine unbounded power, 
To thee the praise we give; 

Omnipotently great, and more 
Than heart can e'er conceive : 

Whene'er thou wilt proceed. 
Thy work can none withstand. 

Or frustrate thy determined deed. 
Or stay the' Almighty's hand. 

3 Thou, Lord, art wise alone; 
Thy counsel doth excel; 

Most wonderful thy works we own, 

Thy ways unsearchable : 
Who knows the mystery, — 

The judgments can explain, — 
Of Him whose eyes in darkness see, 

And search the heart of man ? 

91 c. M. 

Ghry^ mercy ^ grace. 

FATHER, how wide thy glory shines, 
How high thy wonders rise ! 
Known through the earth by thousand signs, 
By thousands through the skies. 

2 Those mighty orbs proclaim thy power ; 

Then" motions speak thy skill : 
And on the wings of every hour 

We read thy patience still. 



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8 Part of thy Name divinely stands, 

On all thy creatures writ; 
They show the labour of thy hands, 

Or impress of thy feet : 

4 But when we view thy strange design 
To save rebellious worms, 

Where vengeance and compassion join 
In their divinest forms : 

5 Here the whole Deity is known, 
Nor dares a creature guess 

Which of the glories brighter shone. 
The justice or the grace. 

6 Now the full glories of the Lamb 
Adoni the heavenly plains ; 

Bright seraphs learn Immanuel's name, 
And try their choicest strains. 

7 may I bear some humble part 
In that immortal song ! 

Wonder and joy shall tune my heart, 
And love command my tongue. 

92 c. M. 

Wisdom and goodness. 

BLEST be our everlasting Lord, 
Our Father, God, and King ! 
Thy sovereign goodness we record. 
Thy glorious power we sing. 

2 By thee the victory is given: 
The majesty divine. 

Wisdom and might, and earth and heaven, 
And all therein, are thine. 

3 The kingdom. Lord, is thine alone. 
Who dost thy right maintain, 

And, high on thy eternal throne. 
O'er men and angels reign. 



62 THE DIVINE PERFECTIONS. 

4 Riches, as seemeth good to thee, 
Thou dost, and honour give ; 

And kings their power and dignity 
Out of thy hand receive. 

5 Thou hast on us the grace bestow'd, 
Thy greatness to proclaim ; 

And therefore now we thank our God, 
And praise thy glorious Name. 

6 Thy glorious Name, thy nature's powers, 
Thou dost to us make known; 

And all the Deity is ours, 
Through thy incarnate Son. 

93 1st P. M. 6 lines 8s. 
Goodness. 

OGOD, my hope, my heavenly rest, 
My all of happiness below. 
Grant my importunate request. 

To me, to me, thy goodness show; 
Thy beatific face display. 
The brightness of eternal day. 
2 Before my faith's enlighten'd eyes, 

Make a^ thy gracious goodness pass; 
Thy goodness is the sight I prize : 

might I see thy smiling face: 
Thy nature in my soul proclaim. 
Reveal thy love, thy glorious name. 

94 L. M. 

Immanuelj God with us. 

ETERNAL depth of love divine. 
In Jesus, God with us, display 'd ; 
How bright thy beaming glories shine ! 
How wide thy healing streams are spread ! 

2 With whom dost thou delight to dwell ? 

Sinners, a vile and thankless race ! 
O God, what tongue aright can tell 

How vast thy love, how great thy grace ! 



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3 The dictates of thy sov'reign will 
With joy our grateful hearts receive ; 

All thy delight in us fulfil ; 
Lo, all we are to thee we give. 

4 To thy sure love, thy tender care, 
Our flesh, soul, spirit, we resign; 

fix thy sacred presence there, 
And seal the' abode forever thine. 

95 . c. M. 

Infinite love. 

A THOUSAND oracles divine 
Their common beams unite. 
That sinners may with angels join, 
To worship God aright. 

2 Triumphant host ! they never cease 
To laud and magnify 

The triune God of holiness. 
Whose glory fills the sky. 

3 By faith the upper choir we meet. 
And join with them to sing 

Jehovah, on his shining seat, 
Our Maker and our King. 

4 For God, made flesh, is wholly ours. 
And asks our noblest strain; 

The Father of celestial powers, 
The Friend of earth-bom man. 

"d^ CM. 

God is Love. 

GREAT God ! to me the sight afford 
To him of old aUow'd ; 
And let my faith behold its Lord, 

Descending in a cloud. 
2 In thy revealing Spirit come. 

Thine attributes proclaim. 
And to my inmost soul make known 
Tlie glories of thy Name. 



64 THE DIVINE PERFECTIONS. 

3 Jehovah, Christ, I thee adore. 
Who gav'st my soul to be ; 

Fountain of being and of power, 
And great in majesty. 

4 The Lord, the mighty God, thou art. 
But let me rather prove 

That name inspoken to my heart. 
That fav'rite name of Love. 

5 Merciful God^ thyself pi'oclaim 
In this polluted breast ; 

Mercy is thy distinguished name, 
And suits the sinner best. 

6 Our mis'ry doth for pity call. 
Our sin implores thy grace ; 

And thou art merciful to all 
Our lost, apostate race. 

97 S. M. 

Lofve and mercy. 

GREAT God, accept a heart 
That pants to sing thy praise ; 
Thou, who without beginning art. 

And without end of days : 
Thy goodness is display'd. 

On all thy works impress'd ; 
Thou lovest all thy hands have made. 
But man thou lovest best. 

2 Gracious art thou to all 

Who truly turn to thee ; 
hear me, then, for pardon call, 

And show thy grace to me : 
Tlirough mercy reconciled. 

For Jesus' sake forgiven ; 
Receive, O Lord, thy favoured child, 

To sing thy praise in heaven. 



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98 c. M. 

Source of all blessings. 

JEHOVAH, God, thy gracious power 
On every hand we see; 
may the blessings of each hour 
Lead all our thoughts to thee. 

2 If on the wings of mora we speed. 
To earth's remotest bound, 

Thy hand will there our journey lead. 
Thine arm our path surround. 

3 Thy power is in the ocean deeps, 
And reaches to the skies ; 

Thine eye of mercy never sleeps, 
Thy goodness never dies. 

4 From mora till noon — till latest eve. 
Thy hand, God, we see; 

And all the blessings we receive. 
Proceed alone from thee. 

99 c. M, 

The Author of every good gift. 

FATHER, to thee my soul I lift ; 
My soul on thee depends ; 
Convinced that every perfect gift 
From thee alone descends. 

2 Mercy and grace are thine alone. 
And power and wisdom too : 

Without the Spirit of thy Son, 
We nothing good can do. 

3 We cannot speak one useful word, 
One holy thought conceive. 

Unless, in answer to our Lord, 
Thyself the blessing give. 

4 His blood demands the purchased grace: 
His blood's availing plea 

Obtained the help for all oui' race. 
And sends it down to me. 

5 



OS THE DIVINE PERFECTIONS. 

5 Thou all our works m us hast wrought; 
. Our good is all divine: 

The praise of every virtuous thought, 
And rigliteous word, is thine. 

6 From thee, through Jesus, we receive 
The power on thee to call. 

In whom we are, and move, and hve; 
Our God is all in all. 

100 L. M. 

Holiness. 

HOLY as thou, Lord, is none; 
Thy holiness is all thine own; 
A drop of that unbounded sea 
Is ours, — a drop derived from thee. 

2 And when thy purity we share, 
Thine only glory we declare ; 
And, humbled into nothing, own. 
Holy and pure is God alone. 

3 Sole, self-existing God and Lord, 
By all thy heavenly hosts adored. 
Let all on earth bow down to thee, 
And own thy peerless majesty: 

4 Thy power unparalleled confess, 
EstabUsh'd on the Rock of peace ; 
The Rock that never shall remove, — 
The Rock of pure, almighty love. 

101 C. M. 

The Trinity, 

HAIL ! holy, holy, holy Lord, 
Wliom one in three we know; 
By all thy heavenly host adored. 

By all thy Church below. 
2 One undivided Trinity 

With triumph we proclaim; 
Thy universe is full of thee, 
And speaks thy glorious name. 



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3 Thee, holy Father, we confess ; 
Thee, holy Son, adore ; 

And thee, the Holy Ghost, we bless. 
And worship evermore. 

4 Hail ! holy, holy, holy Lord, 
Our heavenly song shall be ; 

Supreme, essential One, adored 
In co-eternal Three ! 

102 L. M. 

The glorious goodness of the triune Jehovah. 

COME, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, 
Whom one all-perfect God we own. 
Restorer of thine unage lost, 

Thy various offices make known. 

2 Jehovah in three persons, come, 
And draw, and sprinkle us, and seal. 

Poor, guilty, dying worms, in whom 
Thou wilt eternal life reveal. 

3 Our fallen, rurn'd souls, to raise. 
The knowledge of thyself bestow ; 

Reveal the riches of thy grace. 

And all thy glorious goodness show. 

103 . c. M. 

One God in three persons. 

HAIL, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, 
One God in persons three; 
Of thee we make our joyful boast. 
And homage pay to thee. 

2 Present alike in every place. 
Thy Godhead we adore : 

Beyond the bounds of time and space 
Thou dwellest evermore. 

3 In wisdom infinite thou art. 
Thine eye doth all things see ; 

And every thought of every heart 
Is fully known to thee. 



68 THE DIVINE PERFECTIONS. 

4 Thou lov'st whate'er thy hands have made ; 
Thy goodness we rehearse, 

In shmmg characters displayed 
Throughout the universe. 

5 Wherefore let every creature give 
To thee the praise designed ; 

But chiefly. Lord, tlie thanks receive, — 
The hearts, of all mankind. 

104 5th P. M. 4 lines Vs. 
The co-eternal Three. 

HOLY, holy, holy Lord, 
God the Father, God the Word, 
God the Comforter, receive 
Blessings more than we can give. 

2 Join'd with those beyond the sky, 
Worshipping the Lord most high. 
We our hearts and voices raise. 
Echo his eternal praise. 

3 Three in one, and one in three. 
One, in simplest unity, — 

God, incline thy gracious ear; 
Us, thy lisping creatures, hear. 

4 Thee, while man, the earth-born, sings, 
Angels shrink within their wings ; 
Prostrate seraphim above 

Breathe unutterable love. 

5 Faui with them our souls would rie ; 
Sink as low, and mount as high ; 
Fall, o'erwhelm'd with love, or soar 
Shout, or silently adore! 

105 L- M. 

Co-equal and co-eternal. 

BLESSING and honour, praise and love. 
Co-equal, co-eternal Three, 
In earth below, in heaven above, 
By all thy works, be paid to thee. 



THE DIVIN]^ PERFECTIONS. 69 

2 Let all who owe to thee their birth, 

In praises every hour employ ; 
Jeliovah reigns ! be glad, earth, 

And shout, ye morning stars, for joy. 

106 C. M. 

UnsearchaUe. 

HAIL, Father, whose creating call 
Unnumber'd worlds attend ; 
Jehovah, comprehending all. 
Whom none can comprehend. 

2 In Ught unsearchable enthroned. 
Whom angels dimly see ; 

The fountain of the Godhead own'd, 
And foremost of the Three : 

3 Supreme and all-sufficient God ! 
When nature shall expire, 

And worlds, created by thy nod. 
Shall pensh by thy fire ; 

4 Thy Name, Jehovah, be adored 
By creatures without end ; 

Whom none but thy essential Word 
And Spirit comprehend. 

107 CM. 

DicelUng in ligld which no man can approach unto. 

ETERNAL Power, almighty God, 
Who can approach thy throne ? 
Unfading light is tliine abode. 
To mortal man unknown. 

2 Before the radiance of thine eye. 
The heavens nc longer shine ; 

And all the glories of the sky 
Are but the shade of thine. 

3 Great God, and wilt thou condescend 
To cast a look below ? 

To this vile world thy notice bend — 
'Hiese scats of sin and wo ? 



TO THE DlVmE PEfeFECTIONS. 

4 How strange, how wondrous, r^ thj love! 
With trembling we adore : 

Not all the' exalted minds above 
Its wonders can explore. 

5 While golden harps and angel tongues 
Resound immortal lays. 

Great God, permit our humble songs 
To celebrate tliy praise. 

108 . L. M. 

Canst thou find out the AlmigMy to perfection f 

OGOD, thou bottomless abyss ! 
Thee to perfection who can know? 
. height immense ! what words suffice. 
Thy countless attributes to show? 

2 Greatness unspeakable is thine; 
Greatness, whose undiminish'd ray, 

When short-lived worlds are lost, shall shine,- 
When earth and heaven are fled away. 

3 Unchangeable, all-perfect Lord, 
Essential life's unbounded sea, 

What lives and moves, lives by thy word, 
It lives, and moves, and is, from thee. 

4 High is thy power above all height; 
Whate'er thy will decrees is done ; 

Thy wisdom, equal to thy might, 
Only to thee, God, is known ! 

109 L. M. 

IncompreJiensibly glorious. 
ri OD is a Name my soul adores, — 
vT The' almighty Three, the' eternal One : 
Nature and grace, with all their powers, 

Confess the Infinite Unknown. 
2 Thy voice produced the sea and spheres ; 

Bade the waves roar, the planets shine: 
But nothing like thyself appears 

Through all these spacious works of thine 



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3 Still restless nature dies and grows ; 
From change to change the creatures run: 

Thy being no succession knows, 
And all thy vast designs are one. 

4 A glance of thine runs through the globe. 
Rules the bright worlds, and moves their frame ; 

Of light thou form'st thy dazzHng robe ; 
Thy ministers are living flame. 

5 How shall polluted mortals dare 
To sing thy glory or thy grace? 

Beneath thy feet we he afar, 

And see but shadows of thy face. 

6 Who can behold the blazing light? 
Who can approach consuming flame? 

None but thy wisdom knows thy might; 
None but thy word can speak thy name. 

110 C. M. 

Such hnowledge is too wonderful for u&. 

SHALL foolish, weak, short-sighted man 
Beyond the angels go, — 
The great Almighty God explain. 
Or to perfection know? 

2 His attributes divinely soar 
Above the creature's sight. 

And prostrate seraphim adore 
The glorious Infinite. 

3 Tlie brightness of his giory leaves 
Description far below; 

Nor man's nor angel's heart conceives 
How deep his mercies flow. 

4 His grace is most unsearchable, 
And dazzles all above ; 

They gaze, but cannot count or tell 
The treasures of his love. 



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111 CM. 

Worthy of ceaseless praise from all his creatures. 

PRAISE ye the Lord, ye' immortal choirs 
That fill the worlds above ; 
Praise him who form'd you of his fires, * 
And feeds you with his love. 

2 Shine to his praise, ye crystal skies, 
The floor of his abode ; 

Or veil in shades your thousand eyes 
Before your brigliter God. 

3 Thou restless globe of golden light, 
Whose beams create our days. 

Join with the silver queen of night. 
To own your borrowed rays. 

4 Thunder and hail, and fire and storms, 
The troops of his command. 

Appear in all your dreadful forms. 
And speak his awful hand. 

5 Shout to the Lord, ye surging seas. 
In your eternal roar; 

Let wave to wave resound his praise, 
And shore reply to shore. 

6 Thus while the meaner creatures sing, 
Ye mortals, catch the sound ; 

Echo the glories of your King 
Through all the nations round. 

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Eternal praises to the Most High, 

THEE to laud in songs divine 
Angels in thy presence join : 
We with them our voices raise. 
Echo thine eternal praise. 
2 Holy, holy, holy Lord, 
Live, by heaven and earth adored: 
Thus, with them, we ever cry. 
Glory be to God most high ! 



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JESUS CHRIST. 



113 CM. 

dad tidings of great joy. 
ITrHILE shepherds watch'd their flocks by niglit, 
YV All seated on the ground, 
The angel of the Lord came down, 
And glory shone around. 

2 Fear not, said he, (for mighty dread 
Had seized their troubled mind,) 

Glad tidings of great joy I bring. 
To you and all mankind. 

3 To you, in David's town, this day 
Is born, of David's line. 

The Saviour, who is Christ the Lord ; 
And this shall be the sign : 

4 The heavenly babe you there shall find 
To human view displayed. 

All meanly wrapp'd in swathing-bands. 
And in a manger laid. 

5 Thus spake the seraph ; and forthwith 
Appeared a shining throng 

Of angels, praising God on high. 
Who thus addressed their song : 

6 All glory be to God on high. 
And to the earth be peace : 

Good- will henceforth, from heaven to men, 
Begin and never cease. 

114 9th P. M. 87, 87. 

Peace on earth — good-will to men. 

HARK ! what mean those holy voices. 
Sweetly sounding through the skies? 
Lo! the' angelic host rejoices; 
Heavenly hallelujahs rise. 



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2 Listen to the wondrous story. 
Which they cliant in hymns of joy :— 

Glory in the highest, glory, 
Glory be to God most high ! 

3 Peace on earth, good-will from heaven. 
Reaching far as man is found ; 

Souls redeemed, and sins forgiven! — 
Loud our golden harps shall sound. 

4 Christ is born, the great Anointed ; 
Heaven and earth his praises sing; 

receive whom God appointed. 
For your Prophet, Priest, and King. 

5 Hasten, mortals, to adore him ; 
Leam his name, and taste his joy ; 

Till in heaven ye sing before him, — 
Glory be to God most high ! 

115 15th p. M. 119,119 

Christmas-day, 

ALL hail! happy day. 
When, enrobed in our clay. 
The Redeemer appear'd upon earth ; 
How can we refrain 
To unite in the strain. 
And to hail our Immanuers birth! 

2 Ye angels of God, 
Sound his praises abroad. 

And acknowledge him JAH, the I AM : 

We also will join 

In a hymn so divine. 
Giving glory to God and the Lamb ! 

3 may the return 

Of this once blessed morn 
Be forever remember'd with joy : 

Sweet accents of praise 

All our voices shall raise ; 
Hallelujahs shall be our employ ! 



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4 Let echo prolong 

The harmonious song, — 
Hallelujahs again and again : 

He kindles the fire, 

Whom the nations desire. 
And to him we devote the glad strain. 

116 CM. 

Glory to God in the higJiest. 

MORTALS, awake, with angels join. 
And chant the solemn lay; 
Joy, love, and gratitude combine, 
To hail the' auspicious day. 

2 In heaven the rapt'rous song began, 
And sweet seraphic fire 

Through all the shining legions ran, 
And strung and tuned the l5rre. 

3 Swift through the vast expanse it flew, 
And loud the echo roU'd ; 

The theme, the song, the joy, was new, — 
'Twas more than heaven could hold. 

4 Down through the portals of the sky 
The' impetuous torrent ran ; 

And angels flew, with eager joy, 
To bear the news to man. 

5 With joy the chorus we repeat, — 
Glory to God on high ! 

Good-will and peace are now complete — 
Jesus was born to die. 

6 Hail, Prince of life, forever hail ! 
Redeemer, Brother, Friend ! 

Though earth, and time, and life shall fail, 
Thy praise shall never end. 

7 Hark ! the cherubic armies shout. 
And glory leads the song : 

Good-will and peace are heard throughout 
The' harmonious heavenly throng. 



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The star in the East. 

BRIGHTEST and best of the sons of the mornings 
Dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid , 
Star of the East, the horizon adorning, 
Guide where the infant Redeemer is laid. 

2 Cold, on his cradle, the dew-drops are shining; 
Low lies his bed with the beasts of the stall ; 

Angels adore him, in slumber recUning, — 
Maker, and Monarch, and Saviour, of all. 

3 Say, shall we yield him, in costly devotion. 
Odours of Eden and ofif 'rings divine ? 

Gems of the mountain, and pearls of the ocean. 
Myrrh from the forest, and gold from the mine ? 

4 Vainly we oflfer each ample oblation; 
Yainly with gifts would his favour secure ; 

Richer by far is the heart's adoration ; 

Dearer to God are the prayers of the poor. 

118 ... c. M. 

Design and object of His advent, 

HARK, the glad sound ! the Saviour comes, — 
The Saviour, promised long; 
Let every heart prepare a throne. 
And every voice a song. 

2 He comes, the prisoner to release, 
In Satan's bondage held ; 

The gates of brass before him burst. 
The iron fetters yield. 

3 He comes, from thickest films of vice 
To clear the mental ray. 

And on the eyes oppress'd with night 
To pour celestial day. 

4 He comes, the broken heart to bind, 
The wounded soul to cure. 

And, with the treasures of his grace. 
To' enrich tlie humble poor. 



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6 Our glad hosannas, Prince of peace, 

Thy welcome shall proclaim, 
And heaven's eternal arches ring 

With thy beloved name. 

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Worship the new-born Saviour. 

ANGELS, from the realms of glory, 
Wing your flight o'er all the earth ; 
Ye who sang creation's stoiy, 
Now proclaim Messiah's birth : 
Come and worsliip, — 
Worship Christ, the new-bom king. 

2 Shepherds, in the field abiding. 
Watching o'er your flocks by night, 

God with man is now residing ; 
Yonder shines the infant hght: 
Come and worship, — 
Worsliip Christ, the new-born king. 

3 Sages, leave your contemplations, — 
Brighter ^^sions beam afar; 

Seek the great Desire of nations ; 
Ye have seen his natal star : 
Come and worship, — 
Worship Christ, the new-bom king. 

4 Saints, before the altar bending. 
Watching long in hope and fear, 

Suddenly the Lord, descending. 
In his temple shall appear: 
Come and worship,^ — 
Worship Christ, the new-born king 

5 Sinners, wrung with true repentance, 
Doom'd for guilt to endless pains. 

Justice now revokes the sentence, — 
Mercy calls you, — break your chains: 
Come and worship, — 
Worship Christ, the new-bom king. 



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120 5th P. M. 4 lines Is. 
Wonderful Counsellor, 

BRIGHT and joyful is the mom, 
For to us a child is born ; 
From the highest realms of heaven. 
Unto us a Son is given. 

2 On his shoulder he shall bear 
Power and majesty, and wear. 
On his vesture and his thigh. 
Names most awful, names most high. 

3 Wonderful in counsel He, 
Christ, the' incarnate Deity ; 
Sire of ages, ne'er to cease ; 

King of kings, and Prince of peace. 

4 Come and worship at his feet; 
Yield to him the homage meet; 
From the manger to the throne. 
Homage due to God alone. 

121 C. M. 

TTie Prince of peace, 

TO us a child of hope is born. 
To us a Son is given : 
Him shall the tribes of earth obey. 
Him, all the hosts of heaven. 

2 His name shall be the Prince of peace, 
Forevermore adored, — 

Tlie Wonderful, the Counsellor, 
The great and mighty Lord. 

3 His power, increasing, still shall spread; 
His reign no end shall know; 

Justice shall guard his throne above, 
And peace abound below. 

4 To us a child of hope is bom ; 
To us a Son is given; — 

The Wonderful, the Counsellor, 
The mighty Lord of heaven. 



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122 S. M. 

The mighty God, 

REJOICE in Jesus' birtli,— 
To us a Son is given; 
To us a child is born on earth. 
Who made both earth and heaven. 

2 He reigns above the sky, — 
This universe sustains ; — 

The God supreme, the Lord most high, 
The kins: Messiah reims. 

3 The mighty God is He, 
Autlior of heavenly bhss ; 

Tlie Father of eternity. 

The glorious Prince of peace. 

4 His government shall grow, 

From strength to strength proceed: 
His righteousness the church overflow. 
And all the earth overspread. 

123 . L. M. 

Prophet, Priest, and King, 

TO US a child, of royal birth. 
End of the promises, is given ; 
The' Invisible appears on earth, — 
The Son of man, the God of heaven. 

2 A Saviour born, in love supreme. 
He comes, our fallen souls to raise ; 

He comes, his people to redeem. 
With all his plenitude of grace. 

3 The Christ, by raptured seers foretold, 
Fiird with the Holy Spirit's power. 

Prophet, and Priest, and King, behold ; 
And Lord of all the world adore. 

4 The Lord of hosts, the God most high, 
Wlio quits his throne, on earth to live. 

With joy we welcome from the sky. 
With faith into our hearts receive. 



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124 S. M. 

Thanks for the unspeaJcable gift. 

FATHER, our hearts we lift 
Up to thy gracious throne, 
And thank thee for the precious gift 
Of thine incarnate Son. 

2 His infant cries proclaim 

A peace 'twixt earth and heaven: 
Salvation, through his only Name, 
To all mankind is given. 

3 The gift unspeakable 
We thankfully receive, 

And to the world thy goodness tell, 
And to thy glory live. 

4 May all mankind receive 

The new-bom Prince of peace. 
And meekly in his spirit live. 
And in his love increase. 

5 Till he convey us home. 
Cry every soul aloud, — 

Come, thou Desire of nations, come, 
And take us up to God. 

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The Sun of righteousness. 

HARK! the herald angels sing, — 
Glory to the new-born King; 
Peace on earth, and mercy mild ; 
God and sinners reconciled. 

2 Joyful all ye nations rise, — 
Join the triumphs of the skies ; 
With angelic hosts proclaim, — 
Christ is bom in Bethlehem. 

3 Christ, by highest heaven adored, — 
Christ, the everlasting Lord ; 

Veil'd in flesh the Godhead see ; 
Hail, incarnate Deity! 



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4 Hail the heaven-bom Prince of peace ! 
Hail the Sun of righteousness ! 

Light and Ufe to all he brings, — 
Risen with healing in his wings. 

5 Come, Desire of nations, come ! 
Fix in us thy humble home ; 
Second Adam from above. 
Reinstate us in thy love. 

126 26th P. M. 16,16,16,16. 

The glory of His kingdom, 

HAIL, to the Lord's anointed, 
Great David's greater Son ! 
Hail, in the time appointed. 

His reis^n on earth be^un ! 
He comes to break oppression, — 

To set the captive free ; 
To take away transgression. 
And iiile in equity. 

2 He comes, with succour speedy 
To those who suffer wrong ; 

To help the poor and needy. 
And bid the weak be strong; 

To give them songs for sighing, — 
Their darkness turn to hght, — 

Whose souls, condemned and dying, 
Were precious in his sight. 

3 He shall descend Uke showers 
Upon the fruitful earth. 

And love and joy, hke flowers, 

Spring in his path to birth : 
Before him, on the mountains. 

Shall peace, the herald, go. 
And righteousness, in fountains. 

From hill to valley flow. 

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82 INCARNATION OF JESUS CHRIST. 

4 To him shall prayer unceasing. 

And daily vows ascend; 
His kingdom still increasing, — 

A kingdom without end: 
The tide of time shall never 

His covenant remove ; 
His name shall stand forever; 

That name to us is Love. 

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Reigning in His kingdom of grace, 

ALL glory to God in the sky. 
And peace upon earth be restored ; 
O Jesus, exalted on high, 

Appear, our omnipotent Lord ; 
Who, meanly in Bethlehem bom. 

Didst stoop to redeem a lost race : 
Once more to thy creatures return, 
And reign in thy kingdom of grace. 

2 wouldst thou again be made known, — 
Again in thy Spirit descend ; 

And set up, in each of thine own, 
A kingdom that never shall end ! 

Thou only art able to bless. 

And make the glad nations obey. 

And bid the dire enmity cease. 

And bow the whole world to thy sway, 

3 0, come to thy servants again. 
Who long thine appearing to know; 

Thy quiet and peaceable reign 

In mercy establish below: 
All sorrow before thee shall fly. 

And anger and hatred be o'er; 
And envy and malice shall die, 

And discord afflict us no more. 



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JESUS CHRIST. i 



128 . C. M, 

God manifested in the flesh. 

VITH glorious clouds encompass'd round, 
Whom angels dimly see, 
Will the Unsearchable be found. 
Or God appear to me ? 

2 Will he forsake his throne above, — 
Himself to worms impart ? 

Answer, thou Man of grief and love, 
And speak it to my heart. 

3 In manifested love explain 
Thy wonderful design; 

What meant the suffering Son of man, — 
The streaming blood divine ? 

4 Didst thou not in our flesh appear. 
And live and die below. 

That I might now perceive thee near, 
And my Redeemer know? — 

5 Might view the Lamb in his own light, 
Whom angels dimly see; 

And gaze, transported at the sight. 
To all eternity ? 

129 . c. M. 

The incarnate God, 

GOME, Holy Ghost, inspire our songs 
With thine immortal flame; 
Enlarge our hearts, unloose our tongues. 

To praise the Saviour's name. 
2 How great the riches of his grace ! 

He left his throne above. 
And, swift to save our ruin'd race. 
He flew on wings of love. 



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3 Now pardon, life, and jo3^s divine, 
In rich abundance flow, 

For guilty rebels, dead in sin. 
And doom'd to endless wo. 

4 The' almighty Former of the skies 
Stoop'd to oui' low abode ; 

While angels view'd with wond'ring eyes, 
And hail'd the' incarnate God. 

5 Renew our souls with heavenly strength. 
That we may fully prove 

The height, and depth, and breadth, and length 
Of such transcendent love. 

130 c. M. 

His humiliation. 

AND did the Holy and the Just,— 
The Sovereign of the skies, — , 
Stoop down to wretchedness and dust. 
That guilty man might rise ? 

2 Yes, the Redeemer left his throne, 
His ru^ant throne on high — 

Surprising mercy ! love unknown ! — 
To suffer, bleed, and die. 

3 To dwell with mis'ry here below. 
The Sa^dour left the skies, 

And sunk to wretchedness and wo, 
That worthless man might rise. 

4 He took the dying traitor's place. 
And suflfer'd in his stead ; 

For sinful man — wondrous grace ! — 
For sinful man he bled. 

5 Lord, what heavenly wonders dwell 
In thine atoning blood ! 

By this are sinners saved from hell. 
And rebels brouc^ht to God. 



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131 C. M. 

ETis amazing love. 

PLUNGED in a ^If of dark despair, 
We wretched sinners lay, 
Without one cheering beam of hope, 
Or spark of glimm'ring day. 

2 With pitying eyes the Prince of peace 
Beheld our helpless grief: 

He saw, and (0, amazing love !) 
* He flew to our relief. 

3 Down from the shining seats above. 
With joyful haste he fled ; 

Entered the grave in mortal flesh, 
And dwelt among the dead. 

4 for this love let rocks and liills 
Their lasting silence break; 

And all hannonious human tongues, 
The Saviour's praises speak. 

5 Angels, assist our mighty joys ; 
Strike all your harps of gold ; 

But when you raise your highest notes. 
His love can ne'er be told. 

132 S. M. 

Our ransom paid. 

OUR sins on Christ were laid ; 
He bore the mighty load; 
Our ransom-price he fully paid 
In groans, and tears, and blood. 

2 To save a world, he dies ; 
Sinners, behold the Lamb ! 

To him lift up your longing eyes ; 
Seek mercy in his name. 

3 Pardon and peace abound; 
He will your sins forgive ; 

Salvation in his name is found, — 
He bids the sinner live. 



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4 Jesus, we look to thee ; — 

Where else can sinners go? 
Thy boundless love shall set us free 

From wretchedness and wo. 

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Love divine. 

OLOVE divine, what hast thou done ! 
The' incarnate God hath died for me ! 
The Father's co-eternal Son, 

Bore all my sins upon the tree ! 
The Son of God for me hath died : 
My Lord, my Love, is crucified. 

2 Behold him, all ye that pass by, — 
The bleeding Prince of life and peace ! 

Come see, ye worms, your Saviour die. 

And say, was ever grief like his ? 
Come, feel with me his blood applied : 
My Lord, my Love, is crucified: — 

3 Is crucified for me and you, 

To bring us rebels back to God : 
Beheve, beheve the record true, — 

Ye all are bought with Jesus' blood : 
Pardon for all flows from his side : 
My Lord, my Love, is crucified. 

4 Then let us sit beneath his cross. 
And gladly catch the heahng stream; 

All things for him account but loss. 

And give up all our hearts to him : 
Of nothing think or speak beside, — 
My Lord, my Love, is crucified. 

134 c. M. 

He died for thee, 

BEHOLD the Saviour of mankind 
Nail'd to the shameful tree ; 
How vast the love that him inclined 
To bleed and die for thee ! 



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2 Hark! bow he groans, while nature shakes, 
And earth's strong pillars bend: 

The temple's veil in sunder breaks, — 
The sohd marbles rend. 

3 'Tis done ! the precious ransom 's paid ! 
Receive my soul ! he cries : 

See where he bows his sacred head; 
He bows his head, and dies. 

4 But soon he '11 break death's envious chain, 
And in full glory shine : 

O Lamb of God, was ever pain. 
Was ever love, Uke thine ? 

135 . . L. M. , 

The hidings of the Father'' s face. 

FROM Calvary a cry was heard, — 
A bitter and heart-rending cry; 
My Saviour! every mournful word 
Bespeaks thy soul's deep agony. 

2 A horror of great darkness fell 
On thee, thou spotless, holy One ! 

And all the swarming hosts of hell 
Conspired to tempt God's only Sou. 

3 The scourge, the thorns, the deep disgrace,— 
These thou couldst bear, nor once repine ; 

But when Jehovah veil'd his face. 
Unutterable pangs were thine. 

4 Let the dumb world its silence break; 
Let pealing anthems rend the sky; 

Awake, my sluggish soul, awake ! 
He died, that we might never die. 

5 Lord ! on thy cross I fix mine eye : 
If e'er I lose its strong control, 

0, let that dying, piercing cry, 

Melt and reclaim my wand'iing soul. 



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136 c. M. 

The crucifixion. 

FROM whence these direful omens round, 
Wliich heaven and earth amaze? 
And why do earthquakes cleave the ground ? 
Why hides the sun his rays? 

2 Well may the earth, astonish'd, shake, 
And nature sympathize, — 

The sun, as darkest night, be black; 
Their Maker, Jesus, dies ! 

3 Behold, fast streaming from the tree, 
His all-atoning blood : 

Is this the Infinite ? 'tis he, — 
My Saviour and my God. 

4 For me these pangs liis soul assail ; 
For me this death is borne ; 

My sins gave sharpness to the nail, 

And pointed every thorn. 
6 Let sin no more my soul enslave; 

Break, Lord, its tyrant chain; 
0, save me, whom thou cam'st to save, 

Nor bleed nor die in vain. 

137 L. M. 

Expiring on the cross. 

EXTENDED on a cursed tree, 
Cover'd with dust, and sweat, and blood, 
See there, the Ejng of glory see ! 
Sinks and expires the Son of God. 

2 Wlio, who, my Saviour, this hath done? 
Wlio could thy sacred body wound ? 

No guilt thy spotless heart hath known, — 
No guile hath in thy lips been found. 

3 I, I alone have done the deed; 
'Tis I thy sacred flesh have torn; 

My sins have caused thee. Lord, to bleed, — 
Pointed the nail, and fix'd the thorn. 



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4 For me the burden to sustain 

Too great, on thee, my Lord, was laid: 
To heal me, thou hast borae the pain ; 
To bless me, thou a curse wast made. 

5 My Saviour, how shall I proclaim, 
How pay, the mighty debt I owe? 

Let all I have, and all I am. 

Ceaseless, to all, thy glory show. 

6 Still let tliy tears, thy groans, thy sighs. 
Overflow my eyes, and heave my breast, 

Till, loosed from flesh and earth, I rise, 
And ever in thy bosom rest. 

138 s. M. 

The water and the blood, 

THIS, this is He that came. 
By water and by blood ; 
Jesus is our atoning Lamb, — 
Our sanctifying God. 

2 See from his wounded side 
The mingled current flow ; 

The water and the blood appHed 
Shall wash us white as snow. 

3 Tlie water cannot cleanse. 
Before the blood we feel. 

To purge the guilt of all our sins. 
And our forgiveness seal. 

4 But both in Jesus join. 

Who speaks our sins forgiven, 
And gives the purity divine 

That makes us meet for heaven. 

139 L. M. 

The fountain gushing from his side, 
"T/Tl that pass by, behold the Man — 
X The Man of griefs — condemned for you ; 
The Lamb of God, for sinners slain. 
Weeping to Calvary pursue. 



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2 To us our own Barabbas give, — 
Away with liim, — (they loudly cry :) 

Away with him, not fit to live, — 
The vile seducer crucify ! 

3 His sacred limbs they stretch, they tear; 
With nails they fasten to the wood; 

His sacred Umbs, exposed and bare, 
Or only cover'd with his blood. 

4 Behold his temples, crown'd with thorn ; 
His bleeding hands, extended wide; 

His streaming feet, transfix'd and torn; 
The fountain gushing from his side ! 

5 thou dear suffering Son of God, 
How doth thy heart to sinners move ; 

Sprinkle on us thy precious blood. 
And melt us with thy dying love. 

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The mystery of the cross, 

GOD of unexampled grace. 
Redeemer of mankind. 
Matter of eternal praise 

We in thy passion find : 
Still our choicest strains we bring; 

Still the joyful theme pursue ; 
Thee the Friend of sinners sing. 
Whose love is ever new. 

2 Endless scenes of wonder rise, 

With that mysterious tree, — 
Crucified before our eyes. 

Where we the Saviour see : 
Jesus, Lord, what hast thou done? 

Publish we the death divine ; 
Stop, and gaze, and fall, and own 

Was never love like thine! 



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3 Never love nor sorrow was 

Like that my Jesus show'd ; 
See him stretched on yonder cross. 

And cnish'd beneath our load ! 
Now discern the Deity ; 

Now his heavenly birth declare ; 
Faith cries out, — "lis He, — 'tis He, — 

My God that suffers there ! 

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His universal, everlasting love. 

WOULD Jesus have the sinner die? 
Why hangs he then on yonder tree ? 
What means that strange expiring cry ? 
(Sinners, he prays for you and me ;) 
Forgive them, Father, forgive ! 
They know not that by me they Uve. 

2 Jesus, descended from above. 
Our loss of Eden to retrieve. 

Great God of universal love. 

If all the world through thee may live, 
In us a quick'ning spirit be. 
And witness thou hast died for mp. 

3 Thou loving, all-atoning Lamb, — 
Thee, by thy painful agony. 

Thy bloody sweat, thy grief and shame. 

Thy cross and passion on the tree, 
Thy precious death and life — I pray, 
Take all, take all my sins away. 

4 let thy love my heart constrain, — 
Tliy love, for every sinner free, — 

Tliat every fallen son of man 

May taste the grace that found out me ; 
That all mankind with me may prove 
Thy sovereign, everlasting love. 



92 SUFFERESTGS AND DEATH 

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It isjinlshed, 

HARK ! the voice of love and mercy 
Sounds aloud from Calvary ; 
See ! it rends the rocks asunder. 

Shakes the earth, and veils th.e sky; 

It is finish'd : — 
Hear the dying Saviour cry. 

2 It is finish'd ! what pleasure 
Do these precious words afford ! 

Heavenly blessings, without measure. 
Flow to us from Christ the Lord : 

It is finish'd : — 
Saints, the dying words record. 

3 Tune your harps anew, ye seraphs ; 
Join to sing the pleasing theme; 

All on earth, and all in heaven. 
Join to praise ImmanueFs name; 

It is finish'd : — 
Glory to the bleeding Lamb. 

143 L. M. 

His dying cry. 
TjlIS finish'd! so the Saviour said, 

L And meekly bow'd his dying head : 
'Tis finish'd ! yes, the race is run ; 
The battle fought ; the vict'ry won. 
2 'Tis finish'd ! let the joyful sound 
Be heard the spacious earth around : 
'Tis finish'd ! let the echo fly 
Through heaven and hell, through earth and sky. 

144 L. M. 

The atonement completed, 
'fJlIS finisli'd ! the Messiah dies, — 
_L Cut off for sins, but not his own ; 
Accomplish'd is the sacrifice,— 
Tlie great redeeming work is done. 



OF JESUS CHRIST. 93 

2 'Tis finish'd ! all the debt is paid ; 
Justice divine is satisfied ; 

The grand and full atonement made ; 
Christ for a guilty world hath died. 

3 The veil is rent ; in him alone 
The hving way to heaven is seen; 

The middle wall is broken down, 
And all mankind may enter in. 

4 Tlie types and figures are fulfill'd; 
Exacted is the legal pain; 

The precious promises are seaVd; 
The spotless Lamb of God is slain. 

5 Death, hell, and sin are now subdued ; 
All grace is now to sinners given; 

And, lo ! I plead the' atoning blood. 
And in thy right I claim my heaven. 

145 . . L. M. 

Glorying only in the cross, 

VHEN I survey the wondrous cross 
On which the Prince of glory died, 
My richest gain I count but loss. 
And pour contempt on all my pride. 

2 Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast. 
Save in the death of Christ, my God ; 

All the vain things that charm me most, 
I sacrifice them to his blood. 

3 See, from his head, his hands, his feel. 
Sorrow and love flow mingled down : 

Did e'er such love and sorrow meet. 
Or thorns compose so rich a crown? 

4 Were the whole realm of nature mine, 
That were a present far too small ; 

Love so amazing, so divine. 

Demands my soul, my life, my all. 



94 SUFFERINGS AND DEATH OF CHRIST. 

146 C. M. 

Godly sorrow at the cross, 

ALAS ! and did my Saviour bleed ? 
And did my Sovereign die? 
Would he devote that sacred head 
For such a worm as I ? 

2 Was it for crimes that I have done. 
He groan'd upon the tree ? 

Amazing pity ! grace unknown ! 
And love beyond degree ! 

3 Well might the sun in darkness hide, 
And shut his glories in, 

When Christ, the mighty Maker, died. 
For man, the creature's sin. 

4 Thus might I hide my blushing face 
While his dear cross appears; 

Dissolve my heart in thankfulness. 
And melt mine eyes to tears. 

5 But drops of grief can ne'er repay 
The debt of love I owe : 

Here, Lord, I give myself away, — 
'Tis all that I can do. 

147 C. M. 

Glory to the dying Lamb. 

ALL glory to the dying Lamb, 
And never-ceasing praise. 
While angels Uve to know thy name. 
Or men to feel thy grace. 

2 With this cold stony heart of mine, 
Jesus, to thee I flee; 

And to thy grace my soul resign. 
To be renew'd by thee. 

3 may the uncorrupted seed 
Abide and reign within ; 

And thy life-giving word forbid 
My new-bom soul to sin. 



THE RESURRECTION AND ASCENSION OP 
JESUS CHRIST. 



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Dying^ rising, reigning. 
TTE dies ! the Friend of sinners dies ! 
JUL Lo ! Salem's daughters weep around ; 
A solemn darkness veils the skies, 

A sudden trem^bling shakes the ground : 
Come, saints, and drop a tear or two 

For him who groan'd beneath your load ; 
He shed a thousand drops for you, — 

A thousand drops of richer blood. 

2 Here 's love and grief beyond degree : 
The Lord of glory dies for man ! 

But lo ! what sudden joys we see : 

Jesus, the dead, revives again. 
The rising God forsakes the tomb; 

(In vain the tomb forbids his rise;) 
Cherubic legions guard him home, 

And shout him welcome to the skies. 

3 Break off your tears, ye saints, and tell 
How high your great Deliverer reigns ; 

Sing how he spoil'd the hosts of hell. 
And led the monster death in chains: 

Say, Live forever, wondrous King! 
Bom to redeem, and strong to save; 

Then ask the monster. Where 's thy sting ? 
And, Where 's thy victory, boasting grave ? 

149 c. M. 

Easter Sunday. 

THE Lord of Sabbath let us praise. 
In concert with the blest. 
Who, joyful in harmonious lays, 
Employ an endless rest. 



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2 Thus, Lord, while we remember thee, 
We blest and pious grow; 

By hymns of praise we leani to be 
Triumphant here below. 

3 On this glad day a brighter scene 
Of glory was display'd, 

By the eternal Word, than when 
This universe was made. 

4 He rises, who mankind has bought. 
With grief and pain extreme : 

'Twas great to speak the world from naught ; 
'Twas greater to redeem. 

150 c. M. 

Paradise opened, 

THE Sun of righteousness appears, 
To set in blood no more ; 
Adore the Scatt'rer of your fears, — 
Youi' rising Sun adore. 

2 The saints, when he resigned his breath, 
Unclosed their sleeping eyes ; 

He breaks again the bands of death, — 
Again the dead arise. 

3 Alone the dreadful race he ran, — 
Alone the wine-press trod; 

He dies and suffers as a man, — 
He rises as a God. 

4 In vain the stone, the watch, the seal. 
Forbid an early rise 

To Him, who breaks the gates of hell. 
And opens Paradise. 

151 s. M. 

Joy from the certainty of His resurrection. 

THE Lord is risen indeed ; 
The grave hath lost its prey ; 
With liim shall rise the ransom'd seed, 
To reign in endless day. 



OF JESUS CHRIST. 97 

2 The Lord is risen indeed ; 
He lives, to die no more; 

He lives, his people's cause to plead, 
Whose curse and shame he bore. 

3 The Lord is risen indeed ; 
Attending angels, hear; 

Up to the courts of heaven, with speed. 
The joyful tidings bear : — 

4 Then take your golden lyres, 
And strike each cheerful chord ; 

Join, all ye bright celestial choirs. 
To sing our risen Lord. 

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If we suffer with Him ive shall reign with Him. 

CHRIST, the Lord, is risen to-day. 
Sons of men and angels say : 
Raise your joys and triumphs high ; 
Sing, ye heavens, — and earth, reply. 

2 Love's redeeming work is done, — 
Fought the fight, the battle won : 
Lo! the sun's eclipse is o'er; 

Lo ! he sets in blood no more. 

3 Vain the stone, the watch, the seal, — 
Christ has burst the gates of hell : 
Death in vain forbids his rise ; 

Christ hath open'd Paradise. 

4 Lives again our glorious King ; 
Where, death, is now thy sting? 
Once he died oui' souls to save ; 
Where 's thy \dct'ry, boasting grave ? 

5 Soar we now vvhere Christ has led, 
Follow our exalted head ; 

Made like him, like him we rise ; 
Ours the cross, the grave, the skies. 

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Christ, the first-fruits, 
^. QING praise! the tomb is void 
^ O Where the Redeemer lay ; 
Sing of our bonds destroy'd. 
Our darkness tum'd to day. 

2 Weep for your dead no more; 
Friends, be of joyful cheer ; 

Our Star moves on before. 
Our narrow path shines clear. 

3 He who, so patiently. 

The crown of thorns did wear, — 
He hath gone up on high; 
Our hope is with him there. 

4 Now is his truth reveal'd. 
His majesty, and might; 

The grave has been unseal'd ; 
Christ is our life and Ught. 

5 He who for men did weep; 
Suffer, and bleed, and die, — 

First-fruits of them that sleep, — 
Christ has gone up on high. 

6 His vict'ry hath destroy'd 

The shafts that once could slay: 
Sing praise ! the tomb is void 
Where the Redeemer lay. 

154 -L. M. 

The King ofghry, 

OUR Lord is risen from the dead; 
Our Jesus is gone up on high ; 
The powers of hell are captive led,-— 
Dragged to the portals of the sky : 
There his triumphal chariot waits. 

And angels chant the solemn lay; — 
Lift up your heads, ye heavenly gates; 
Ye everlasting doors, give way! 



OF JESUS CIERIST. 99 

2 Loose all your bars of massy light, 
And wide unfold the' ethereal scene ; 

He claims these mansions as his right; 

Receive the Bang of glory in ! 
Who is the Kmg of glory ? Who ? 

The Lord, that all our foes overcame ; — 
The world, sin, death, and hell overthrew; — 

And Jesus is the Conqueror's name. 

3 Lo ! his triumphal chariot waits. 
And angels chant the solemn lay ; 

Lift up your heads, ye heavenly gates ; 

Ye everlasting doors, give way ! 
Who is the King of glory ? Who ? 

The Jjord, of glorious power possess'd ; — 
The King of saints and angels too ; — 

God over all, forever blest ! 

155 28th P. M. 10s, lis, & 12. 

The voice of triumph. 

LIFT your glad voices in triumph on high. 
For Jesus hath risen, and man shall not die ; 
Vain were the terrors that gather'd around him. 
And short the dominion of death and the grave ; 
He burst from the fetters of darkness that bound 
him. 
Resplendent in glory, to live and to save : 
Loud was the chorus of angels on high, — 
The Saviour hath risen, and man shall not die. 

2 Glory to God, in full anthems of joy; 
The being he gave us death cannot destroy : 

Sad were the life we may part with to-morrow. 
If tears were our birthright, and death were 
our end ; 

But Jesus hath cheer'd the dark valley of sorrow, 
And bade us, immortal, to heaven ascend : 
Lift then your voices in triumph on high, 
For Jesus hath risen, and man shall not die. 



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jf-^scension day. 

HAIL the day that sees Him rise, 
Ravish'd from our wishful eyes ! 
Christ, awhile to mortals given, 
Reascends his native heaven. 

2 There the pompous triumph waits: 
Lift your heads, eternal gates ; 
Wide unfold the radiant scene; 
Take the King of glory in. 

3 Circled round with angel powers. 
Their triumphant Lord and ours, 
Conqu'ror over death and sin, — 
Take the King of glory in. 

4 Him though highest heaven receiver. 
Still he loves the earth he leaves ; 
Though returning to his throne. 

Still he calls mankind his own. 

5 See, he lifts his hands above ! 
See, he shows the prints of love ! 
Hark, his gracious hps bestow 
Blessings on his Church below ! 

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Ghry to glory's King. 

GOD is gone up on high, 
With a triumphant noise, — 
The clarions of the sky 
Proclaim the' angehc joys : 
Join all on earth, rejoice and sing; 
Glory ascribe to glory's King. 
2 All power to our great Lord 

Is by the Father given ; 
By angel hosts adored, 

He reigns supreme in heaven : 
Join all on earth, rejoice and sing; 
Glory ascribe to glory's King. 



OF JESUS CHRIST. 101 

3 High on his holy seat, 

He bears the righteous sway; 
His foes beneath his feet 

Shall sink and die away : 
Join all on earth, rejoice and sing; 
Glory ascribe to glory's King. 

4 Till all the earth, renew'd 
In righteousness divine. 

With all the hosts of God, 
In one great choiiis join. 
Join all on earth, rejoice and sing; 
Glory ascribe to glory's King. 



HIS PRIESTHOOD AND INTERCESSION. 
158 . CM. 

King of Tangs and Lord of lords, 

THE head that once was crown'd with thorns, 
Is crown'd with glory now ; 
A royal diadem adorns 
The mighty Victor's brow. 

2 The highest place that heaven affords. 
Is to our Jesus given ; 

The King of kings, and Lord of lords. 
He reigns o'er earth and heaven — 

3 The joy of all who dwell above. 
The joy of all below. 

To whom he manifests his love. 
And grants his Name to know. 

4 To them the cross, with all its shame, 
With all its grace, is given; 

Then- name — an everlasting name. 
Their joy — the joy of heaven. 

5 They suffer with their Lord below, — 
They reign with him above; 

Their everlasting joy to know 
Tlie myst'ry of his love. 



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159 L. M. 

His supreme Divinity, 

THE day of Christ, the day of God, 
We humbly hope with joy to see, — 
Washed in the sanctifying blood 
Of an incarnate Deity — 

2 Who did for us his life resign : 
There is no other God but one ; 

For all the plenitude Divine 
Resides in the eternal Son. 

3 Spotless, sincere, without oflfence, 
may we to his day remain, 

Who trust the blood of Christ to cleanse 
Our souls from every sinful stain. 

4 Lord, we believe the promise sure; 
The purchased Comforter impart; 

Apply thy blood to make us pure, — 
To keep us pure in life and heart. 

5 Then let us see that day supreme. 
When none thy Godhead shall deny, — 

Thy sov'reign majesty blaspheme, — 

Or count thee less than the Most High : 

6 When all who on their God believe, — 
Who here thy last appearing love, — 

Shall thy consummate joy receive. 
And see thy glorious face above. 

160 c. M. 

Reigning^ and interceding for sinners, 

SEE Jesus rising from the grave ; 
Behold him raised on high ; 
He pleads his merits there, to save 

Transgressors doom'd to die. 
2 There, on a glorious throne, he reigns; 

And, by his power divine. 
Redeems us from the slavish chains 
Of Satan and of sin. 



OF JESUS CHRIST. 103 

3 Thus saved, may we with joy appear 

In heaven before his face ; 
And, with the blest assembly there, 

Smg his redeeming grace. 

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Messiah, the Saviour and the Judge. 

MESSIAH, joy of every heart. 
Thou, thou the King of glory art, 
The Father's everlasting Son : 
Thee it delights thy Church to own; 
For all our hopes on thee depend, 
Whose glorious mercies never end. 

2 When thou hadst rendered up thy breath. 
And, dying, drawn the sting of death. 
Thou didst from earth triumphant rise. 
And ope the portals of the skies ; 

That all who trust in thee alone. 
Might follow, and partake thy throne. 

3 Seated at God's right hand again, 
Thou dost in all his glory reign; 
Thou dost, thy Father's image, shine 
In all the attributes divine ; 

And thou with judgment clad shalt come. 
To seal our everlasting doom. 

4 Wherefore we now for mercy pray ; 
Saviour, take our sins away: 
Before thou as our Judge appear, 

In dreadful majesty severe. 
Appear our Advocate with God, 
And save the purchase of thy blood. 

162 L. M. 

The great Antetype, 

OTHOU whose off 'ring on the tree 
The legal off 'rings aU foreshow'd, 
Borrow'd their whole effect from thee. 
And drew their virtue from thy blood:- — 



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2 The blood of goats and bullocks slain. 
Could never for one sin atone ; 

To purge the guilty offerer's stain, 
Thine was the work, and thine alone. 

3 These feeble types and shadows old. 
Are all in thee, the Truth, fulfilled : 

We in thy sacrifice behold 

The substance of those rites reveal'd. 

4 Thy meritorious suflF 'rings past. 

We see by faith to us brought back; 
j^Vnd, on thy grand oblation cast, 
Its saving benefits partake. 

163 c. M. 

His sympathizing love, 

VITH joy we meditate the grace 
Of our High Pnest above ; 
His heart is made of tenderness. 
His bowels melt with love. 

2 Touch'd with a sympathy within, 
He knows our feeble frame; 

He knows what sore temptations mean. 
For he hath felt the same. 

3 He, in the days of feeble flesh, 
Pour'd out strong cries and tears. 

And in his measure feels afresh 
What every member bears. 

4 He'll never quench the smoking flax. 
But raise it to a flame ; 

The bruised reed he never breaks, 
Nor scorns the meanest name. 

5 Then let our humble faith address 
His mercy and his power; 

We shall obtain deliv'ring grace 
In every trying hour. 



OF JESUS CHRIST. 105 

164 s. M. 

The Pillar and the Cloud. 

THOU very Paschal Lamb, 
Whose blood for us was shed, 
Through whom we out of bondage came. 
Thy ransom'd people lead. 

2 Angel of gospel grace. 
Fulfil thy character: 

To guard and feed the chosen race. 
In Israel's camp appear. 

3 Throughout the desert way, 
Conduct us by thy hght; 

Be thou a cooling cloud by day, 
A cheering fire by night. 

4 Our fainting souls sustain 
With blessings from above ; 

And ever on thy people rain 
The manna of thy love. 

165 L. M. 

An Advocate vnth the Father. 

TESUS, my Advocate above, 
J My Friend before the throne of love, 
If now for me prevails thy prayer. 
If now I find thee pleading there, — 

2 If thou the secret wish convey. 

And sweetly prompt my heart to pray, — 
Hear, and my weak petitions join. 
Almighty Advocate, to thine. 

3 Jesus, my heart's desire obtain; 
My earnest suit present, and gain: 
My fulness of corruption show ; 
The knovledge of myself bestow. 

4 Save me from death ; from hell set free ; 
Death, hell, are but the want of thee : 
My life, my only heaven thou art ; — 

O might I feel thee in my heart. 



lOG rUIESTHOOD AND INTERCESSION 

166 S.M. 

He ever liveth U make intercession for us. 

LORD, how shall sinners dare 
Look up to thine abode ? 
Or ofifer their imperfect prayer, 
Before a holy God ? 

2 Bright teiTors guard thy seat, 
And glories veil thy face; 

Yet mercy calls us to thy feet. 
And to thy throne of grace. 

3 My soul, with cheerful eye 

See where thy Sa\iour stands, — 
The glorious Advocate on high, 
With incense in his hands. 

4 Teach my weak heart, Lcjrd, 
With faith to call thee mine ; 

Bid me pronounce the blissful word — 
Father — with joy divine. 

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His speaking blood, 

FATHER, hear the blood of Jesus, 
Speaking in tliine ears above: 
From impending wrath release us ; 

Manifest thy pardoning love. 
2 receive us to thy favour, — 

For his only sake receive ; 
Give us to the bleeding Saviour, — 

Let us by liis dying live. 
f3 To thy pardoning grace receive them,— 

Once he pray'd upon the tree; 
Still his blood cries out — Forgive them ; 

All their sins were laid on me. 
i Still our Advocate in heaven, 

Prays the prayer on earth begun, — 
Father, show their sins forgiven ; 

Father, glorify thy Son ! 



OF JESUS CHRIST. 107 

168 . c. M. 

The Way, the Truth, and ihe Life. 

THOU art the Way : to thee alone, 
From sin and death we flee ; 
And he who would the Father seek, 
Must seek hun. Lord, by thee. 

2 Thou art the Truth : thy word alone 
True wisdom can impart; 

Thou only canst inform the mind. 
And purify the heart. 

3 Thou art the Life : the rending tomb 
Proclaims thy conquering arm; 

And those who put their trust in thee 
Nor death nor hell shall harm. 

4 Thou art the Way— the Truth— the Life • 
Grant us that way to know- 
That truth to keep — that life to win — 

Whose joys eternal flow. 

169 s. M. 

The only name given under heaven. 

JESUS, thou Source divine, 
Whence hope and comfort flow, — 
Jesus, no other Name than thine 
Can save from endless wo. 

2 None else will heaven approve : 
Thou art the only way, 

Ordain'd by everlasting love. 
To realms of endless day. 

3 Here let our feet abide. 
Nor from thy path depart : 

Direct our steps, thou gracious Guide ! 
And cheer the fainting heart. 

4 Safe through this world of night. 
Lead to the bUssful plains, — 

The regions of unclouded light, — 
Where joy forever reigns. 



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170 C. M. 

Our ever-present Guide, 

JESUS, the Lord of glory, died. 
That we might never die ; 
A.nd now he reigns supreme, to guide 

His people to the sky. 
2 Weak though we are, he still is near, 

To lead, console, defend ; 
Tn all our sorrow, all our fear. 

Our all-sufficient Friend. 
8 From His high throne in bliss, he deigns 

Our every prayer to heed ; 
Bears with our folly, soothes our pains, 

Supplies our every need. 

4 And from his love's exhaustless spring, 
Joys like a river come. 

To make the desert bloom and sing. 
O'er which we travel home. 

5 Jesus, there is none like thee, 
Our Saviour and our Lord ; 

Through earth and heaven exalted be. 
Beloved, obey'd, adored. 

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Our great High Priest. 

SEE where our great High Priest 
Before the Lord appears,^ 
And on his loving breast 
The tribes of Israel bears: 
Never without his people seen. 
The Head of all beheving men. 
2 With him, the Comer-stone, 

The living stones conjom ; 
Christ and his Church are one, — 
One body and one vine ; 
For us he uses all his powers, 
And all he has, or is, is ours. 



OF JESUS CHRIST. 109 

3 The path of Christ our Head 

Tlie members all pursue. 
By his good Spirit led 
To act and suffer too : 
Like him, the toil, the cross, sustain, 
Till, glorious all, like him we reign. 

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His everlasting Priesthood, 

OTHOU eternal Victim, slain 
A sacrifice for guilty man. 
By the eternal Spirit made 
All offering in the sinner's stead, — 
Our everlasting Priest art thou. 
Pleading thy death for sinners now. 

2 Tliy offering still continues new; 
Thy vesture keeps its crimson hue ; 
Thou art the ever-slaughter'd Lamb, 
Thy priesthood still remains the same ; 
Thy years, Lord, can never fail ; 
Thy goodness is unchangeable. 

3 that our faith may never move, 
But stand unshaken as thy love : 
Sure e^ddence of things unseen, 
Passing the years that intervene, 
Now let it view upon the tree 

The Lord, who bleeds and dies for me. 

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Intercourse between earth and heaven. 
"DEDEEMER of mankind ! 
Xt Who on thy Name rely, 
A constant intercom'se we find 

Open'd 'twixt earth and sky. 
2 Mercy, and grace, and peace, 

Descend through thee alone ; 
And thou dost all our services 

Present before the throne. 



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3 On us the Father's Ioyk 
Is for thy sake bestow'd ; 

Thou art our Advocate above, 
Thou art our way to God. 

4 Our way to God we trace ; 
And, through thy Name forgiven, 

From step to step, from grace to grace. 
By thee ascend to heaven. 

174 L. M. 

Fulness and sufficiency of the Atonement, 

JESUS, thy blood and righteousness 
My beauty are, my glorious dress : 
'Midst flaming worlds, in these array'd, 
With joy shall I lift up my head. 

2 Bold shall I stand in thy great day, 

. For who aught to my charge shall lay ? 
Fully absolved through these I am, — 
From sin and fear, from guilt and shame. 

3 The holy, meek, unspotted Lamb, 
Who from the Father's bosom came, — 
Who died for me, e'en me to' atone, — 
Now for my Lord and God I own. 

4 Lord, I beheve thy precious blood, — 
Which, at the mercy-seat of God, 
Forever doth for sinners plead, — 

For me, e'en for my soul, was shed. 

5 Lord, I beheve were sinners more 
Than sands upon the ocean shore. 
Thou hast for all a ransom paid. 
For all a full atonement made. 

175 c. M. 

Crown Him Lord of all. 

ALL hail the power of Jesus' name ! 
Let angels prostrate fall; 
Bring forth the royal diadem. 
And crown him Lord of all. 



OF JESUS CHRIST. HI 

2 Ye chosen seed of Israel's race. 
Ye ransom'd from the fall, 

Hail him who saves you by his grace. 
And crown him Lord of all. 

3 Sinners, whose love can ne'er forget 
The wormwood and the gall ; 

Go, spread your trophies at his feet. 
And crown him Lord of all. 

4 Let every kindred, every tribe. 
On this terrestrial ball. 

To him all majesty ascribe, 
And crown him Lord of all. 

5 that with yonder sacred throng 
We at his feet may fall ; 

We'll join the everlasting song. 
And crown him Lord of all. 

176 S. M. 

The Redeemer on Ms throne, 

ENTHRONED is Jesus now. 
Upon his heavenly seat ; 
The kingly crown is on his brow. 
The saints are at his feet, 

2 In shining white they stand, — 
A great and countless throng; 

A palmy sceptre in each hand. 
On every hp a song. 

3 They sing the Lamb of God, 
Once slain on earth for them ; 

The Lamb, through whose atoning blood. 
Each wears his diadem. 

4 Thy grace, Holy Ghost, 
Thy blessed help supply. 

That we may join that radiant host. 
Triumphant m the sky. 



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Praises to our Prophet, Priest, and King. 

JOIN" all the glorious names 
Of wisdom, love, and power. 
That ever mortals knew, 
Or angels ever bore: 
All are too mean to speak his worth, — 
Too mean to set the Saviour forth. 

2 Great Prophet of our God, 

Our tongues shall bless thy Name ; 
By thee the joyful news 

Of our salvation came, — 
The joyful news of sins forgiven, 
Of hell subdued, and peace with heaven. 

3 Jesus, our great High Priest, 
Has shed his blood and died; 

The guilty conscience needs 
No sacrifice beside: 
His precious blood did once atone, 
And now it pleads before the throne. 

4 thou almighty Lord, 
Our Conqueror and King, 

Thy sceptre and thy sword, 
Thy reigning grace, we sing : 
Thine is the power; behold we sit 
In willing bonds beneath thy feet. 

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Our Paschal Lamb. 

HAIL, thou once despised Jesus ! 
Hail, thou Galilean King ! 
Thou didst suffer to release us ; 

Thou didst free salvation bring. 
Hail, thou agonizing Saviour, 

Bearer of our sin and shame ! 
By thy merits we find favour; 
Life is given through thy name. 



OF JESUS CHRIST. US 

2 Paschal Lamb, by God appointed, 
All our sins on thee were laid : 

By almighty love anointed, 

Thou hast full atonement made. 

All thy people are forgiven. 

Through the virtue of thy blood ; 

Open'd is the gate of heaven ; 

Peace is made 'twixt man and God. 

3 Jesus, hail ! enthroned in glory. 
There forever to abide ; 

All the heavenly hosts adore thee. 

Seated at thy Father's side : 
There for sinners thou art pleading ; 

There thou dost our place prepare: 
Ever for us interceding. 

Till in glory we appear. 

4 Worship, honour, power, and blessing, 
Thou art worthy to receive ; 

Loudest praises, without ceasing, 

Meet it is for us to give. 
Help, ye bright angeUc spirits; 

Bring your sweetest, noblest lays ; 
Help to sing our Savioui''s merits; 

Help to chant Immanuel's praise. 

179 L. M. 

Because He liveth I shall live also, 

I KNOW that my Redeemer lives — 
What joy the blest assurance gives ! 
He lives, he Uves, who once was dead; 
He lives, my everlasting Head ! 

2 He Uves, to bless me with his lore ; 
He lives, to plead for me above ; 
He lives, my hungry soul to feed; 
He lives, to help in time of need. 
8 



114 PRIESTHOOD AND INTERCESSION. 

3 He lives, and grants me daily breath ; 
He lives, and I shall conquer death; 
He lives, my mansion to prepare ; 

He lives, to bring me safely there. 

4 He Uves, all glory to his Name; 
He hves, my Saviour, still the same ; 
What joy the blest assurance gives, — 

1 know that my Redeemer hves. 

180 21st P. M. 66,84,66,84. 

Immanuets praise, 

PROCLAIM the lofty praise 
Of Him who once was slain. 
But now is risen, through endless days 

To hve and reign: 
He lives and reigns on high. 

Who bought us with his blood, — 
Enthroned above the farthest sky, 
Our Saviour God. 

2 All honour, power, and praise, 
To Jesus' Name belong; 

With hosts seraphic, glad we raise 

The sacred song : 
Worthy the Lamb, they cry. 

That on the cross was slain ; 
But now, ascended up on high. 

He lives to reign. 

3 He Uves to bless and save 
The souls redeemed by grace, 

And rescue from the dreary grave 

The fallen race ; 
And soon we hope, above, 

A louder strain to sing, — 
With all our powers to praise and love 

Our Saviour King. 



THE HOLY SPIRIT. 



181 L- M. 

The promised Comforter, 

LORD, we believe to us and ours 
The apostolic promise given; 
We wait the pentecostal powers, — 

The Holy Ghost sent down from heaven. 

2 Assembled here with one accord. 
Calmly we wait the promised grace, — 

The purchase of our dying Lord ; 

Come, Holy Ghost, and fill the place. 

3 If every one that asks may find, — 
If still thou dost on sinners fall, — 

Come as a mighty rushing wind ; 
Great grace be now upon us all. 

4 Ah ! leave us not to mourn below. 
Or long for thy return to pine; 

Now, Lord, the Comforter bestow. 
And fix in us the Guest divine. 

182 . L. M. 
The. Saviour's legacy. 

JESUS, we on the words depend. 
Spoken by thee while present here, — 
The Father in my name shall send 
The Holy Ghost, the Comforter. 

2 That promise made to Adam's race, 
Now, Lord, in us, we pray, fulfil ; 

And give the Spirit of thy grace. 
To teach us all thy perfect wiU. 

3 That heavenly Teacher of mankind. 
That Guide iiafalHble, impart, — 

To bring thy sayings to our mind, 

And write them on each faithful heart. 



116 THE HOLY SPIRIT. 

4 He only can the words apply, 

Through which we endless life possess; 

And deal to each his legacy, — 
Our Lord's unutterable peact. 

183 3d P. M. 4 6s&2 8s. 
Pleading the promise, 

OTHOU that hearest prayer. 
Attend our humble cry ; 
And let thy servants share 

Thy blessing from on high : 
We plead the promise of thy word ; — 
Grant us thy Holy Spirit, Lord ! 

2 If earthly parents hear 
Their children when they cry ; 

If they, with love sincere, 

Their children's wants supply; 
Much more wilt thou thy love display, 
And answer when thy children pray. 

3 Our heavenly Father, thou; 
We, children of thy grace ; 

O let thy Spirit now 

Descend and fill the place ; 
That aU may feel the heaveiJy flame, 
And all unite to praise thy name. 

184 c. M. 

Witnessing vnth our spirits, 

ETERNAL Spirit ! God of truth \ 
Our contrite hearts inspire ; 
Kindle a flame of heavenly love — 
The pure celestial fire. 

2 'Tis thine to soothe the sorrowing. 
With guilt and fear oppressed ; 

*Tis thine to bid the dying live. 
And give the weary rest. 



THE HOLY SPIRIT. 117 

3 Subdue the power of every sin, 
Whatever that sin may be ; 

That we, in singleness of heai-t, 
May worship only thee. 

4 Then with our spirits witness bear. 
That we are sons of God ; 

Tledeem'd from sin, and death, and hell. 
Through Christ's atoning blood. 

185 . c. M. 

Source of light and joy, 

GREAT Spirit, by whose mighty power 
All creatures hve and move. 
On us thy benediction shower; 
Inspire our souls with love. 

2 Hail, Source of light ! arise and shine ; 
All gloom and doubt dispel ; 

Give peace and joy, for we are thine ; 
In us forever dwell. 

3 From death to hfe our sphits raise. 
And full redemption bring; 

New tongues impart to speak the praise 
Of Christ, our God and King. 

4 Thine inward witness bear, unknown 
To all the world beside; 

With joy we then shall feel and own 
Our Saviour glorified. 

186 s. M. 

The blessings of His grace, 

BLEST Comforter divine. 
Whose rays of heavenly love 
Amid our gloom and darkness shine. 

And point om- souls above; — 
2 Thou, who with still small voice 

Dost stop the sinner's way, 
And bid the mourning saint rejoice, 
Tliough earthly joys decay ; — 



118 THE HOLY SPIRIT. 

3 Thou, whose inspiring breath 
Can make the cloud of care. 

And e'en the gloomy vale of death, 
A smile of glory wear ; — 

4 Thou, who dost fill the heart 
With love to all our race, — 

Blest Comforter ! to us impart 
Thine all-sufficient grace. 

187 5th P. M. 4 lines 1^. 

Earnest of eternal rest 

GRACIOUS Spirit— Love divine! 
Let thy hght within me shine; 
All my guilty fears remove; 
Fill me with thy heavenly love. 

2 Speak thy pard'ning grace to me; 
Set the burden'd sinner free ; 

Lead me to the Lamb of God ; 
Wash me in his precious blood. 

3 Life and peace to me impart; 
Seal salvation on my heart; 
Breathe thyself into my breast, — 
Earnest of immortal rest. 

4 Let me never from thee stray; 
Keep me in the nan^ow way; 
Fill my soul with joy divine ; 
Keep me. Lord, forever thine. 

188 . . s. M. 

Imploring His guidance. 

COME, Spirit, Source of light ; 
Thy grace is unconfined ; 
Dispel the gloomy shades of night, — 

The darkness of the mind. 
2 Now to om- eyes display 

The truth thy words reveal; 
Cause us to iim the heavenly way. 
Delighting in thy will. 



THE HOLY SPIRIT. 119 

8 Tliy teachings make us know 

The myst'ries of thy love. 
The vanity of things below. 

The joy of things above. 

4 While through this maze we stray, 

spread thy beams abroad; 
Point out the dangers of the way. 

And guide our steps to God. 

189 11th P. M. 16,16,11,16. 

Seeking His power and grace, 

FATHER of our dying Lord, 
Remember us for good ; 
fulj&l his faithful word, 

And hear his speaking blood. 
Give us that for which he prays : 

Father, glorify thy Son ; 
Show his truth, and power, and grace. 
And send the promise down. 

2 True and faithful Witness, thou, 
Christ, the Spirit give; 

Hast thou not received him now, , 

That we might now receive ? 
Art thou not the living Head ? 

Life to all thy limbs impart; 
Shed thy love, thy Spirit shed. 

In eveiy waiting heart. 

3 Holy Ghost, the Comforter, 
The gift of Jesus, come ; 

Glow our hearts to find thee near. 
And swell to make thee room; 

Present with us thee we feel ; 
Come, come, and in us be ; 

With us, in us, live and dwell. 
To all eternity. 



120 THE HOLY SPIRIT. 

190 1st P. M. 6 lines S\ 

Let there he light, 

EXPAND thy wings, celestial Dove, 
And, brooding o'er our nature's night. 
Call forth the ray of heavenly love. 

And let there in our souls be light ; 
Illuminate the dark abyss 
With glorious beams of endless bhss. 
2 Let there be light, again command, 

And hght there in our hearts shall be ; 
We then, through faith, shall understand 

Thy great mysterious majesty ; 
And, by the shining of thy grace. 
Behold in Christ thy glorious face. 

191 CM. 

His quickening power 

COME, Holy Sphit, heavenly Dove, 
With all thy quick'ning powers: 
Kindle a flame of sacred love 
In these cold hearts of ours. 

2 Look how we grovel here below. 
Fond of these earthly toys ; 

' Our souls, how heavily they go. 
To reach eternal joys. 

3 In vain we tune our foimal songs, — 
In vain we strive to rise ; 

Hosannas languish on our tongues. 
And our devotion dies. 

4 Father, and shall we ever live 
At this poor dying rate; 

Our love so faint, so cold to thee, 
And thine to us so great? 

5 Come, Holy Spirit, heavenly Dove, 
With all thy quick'ning powers; 

Come, shed abroad a Saviour's love. 
And that shall kindle ours 



THE HOLY SPIRIT. 121 

192 6tli P. M. 6 lines 7s, 
The Son glorified, 

FATHER, glorify thy Son ; 
Answer bis aU-powerful prayer ; 
Send that Intercessor down ; 

Send that other Comforter, 
Whom, believingly, we claim, — 
Whom we ask in Jesus' name. 
2 Wilt thou not the promise seal, 

Good and faithful as thou art, — 
Send the Comforter to dwell 

Eveiy moment in our heart? 
Yes, thou must the grace bestow : 
Truth hath said it shall be so. 

193 c. M. 

Life^ light^ and love. 

ENTHRONED on high, Almighty Lord, 
The Holy Ghost send down; 
Fulfil in us thy faithful word. 
And all thy mercies crown. 

2 Though on our heads no tongues of fire 
Their wondrous powers impart. 

Grant, Saviour, what we more deshe, — 
Thy Spirit in our heart. 

3 Spirit of life, and light, and love. 
Thy heavenly influence give ; 

Quicken our souls, oui* guilt remove. 
That we in Christ may hve. 

4 To our benighted minds reveal 
The glories of his grace. 

And bring us where no clouds conr^ial 

The brightness of his f£X5e. 
6 His love within us shed abroad, — 

Life's ever-springing well ; 
Til] God in us, and we in God, 

In love eternal dwell. 



122 THE HOLY SPIRIT. 

194 s. M. 

The day of Pentecost. 

LORD God, the Holy Ghost! 
In this accepted hour, 
As on the day of Pentecost, 
Descend in all thy power. 

2 We meet with one accord 
In our appointed place, 

And wait the promise of our Lord,— 
The Spirit of all grace. 

3 Like mighty rushing wind 
Upon the waves beneath. 

Move with one impulse every mind ; 
One soul, one feeling breathe. 

4 The young, the old, inspire 
With wisdom from above; 

And give us heaii;s and tongues of fire. 
To pray, and praise, and love. 

5 Spirit of light, explore. 

And chase our gloom away, — 
With lustre shining more and more. 
Unto the perfect day. 

6 Spirit of ti*uth, be thou 

In life and death, our guide ; 
Spirit of adoption, now 
May we be sanctified. 

195 L. M. 

The plenitude of His grace and power, 

SPIRIT of the living God, 
In all thy plenitude of grace. 
Where'er the foot of man hath trod. 

Descend on our apostate race. 
2 Give tongues of fire, and hearts of love, 

To preach the reconciling word ; 
Give power and unction from above, 
Where'er the joyful somid is heard. 



THE HOLY SPIRIT. 123 

8 Be darkness, at thy coming, light; 

Confusion — order, in thy path ; 
Souls without strength, inspire with might; 

Bid mercy triumph over wrath. 
4 Baptize the nations ; far and nigh 

The triumphs of the cross record ; 
The name of Jesus glorify. 

Till every kindred call him Lord. 

196 L. M. 

Peajce^ love^ purity, 

VHEN first the Spmt left the throne. 
He took the semblance of a dove ; 
A symbol chosen to make known 

His peace, and purity, and love. ij, 

2 When next, at Pentecost, he came, i 
He stood confessed to mortal sisrht ' 

Within the cloven tongue of flame, — >, 

The type of freedom, guidance, light. '^ 

3 Vouchsafe, celestial Dove, thy peace, |i 
That we at perfect peace may be ; . j 

Withm our hearts thy love increase, — i 

Within our thoughts, thy purity. ;' 

4 Light divine ! direct our feet, vi 
Which long in error's paths have trod; i 

Our prison'd souls with freedom greet. 

Convince of sin, and lead to God. v- 

197 9th P. M. 87, S^. ^ 
The Source of consolation, i • 

HOLY Ghost ! dispel our sadness ; 
Pierce the clouds of nature's night ; ; : 

Come, thou Source of joy and glachiess, 

Breathe thy life, and spread thy light. . ! 

2 Hear, hear our supplication. 
Blessed Spmt ! God of peace ! 
Rest upon this congregation 

With the fulness of thy grace. i 



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124 THE HOLY SPIRIT. 

3 Author of our new creation, . 
May we all thine influence prove; 

Make our souls thy habitation, — 
Shed abroad the Saviour's love. 

4 Source of sweetest consolation, 
Breathe thy pe?ice on all below; 

Bless, bless this congregation ; 
On each soul thy grace bestow ! 

198 3 1st p. M. 84,84. 
The Source of every good gift, 

OUR blest Redeemer, ere he breathed 
His last farewell, 
A Guide, — a Comforter, bequeathed. 
With us to dwell. 

2 He comes, his graces to impart ; 

A willing guest. 
While he can find one humble heart 
Wherein to rest. 

3 And all the good that we possess, 

His gift we own ; 
Yea, every thought of holiness, 
And victory won. 

4 Spirit of purity and grace, 

Our weakness see ; 
make our hearts thy dwelhng-place. 
And worthier thee. 

199 9th P. M. 87,87,87,87 
Guide and Comfofrter. 

HOLY Spirit ! Fount of blessing. 
Ever watchful, ever kind ; 
Thy celestial aid possessing, 

Prison'd souls deliv'rance find. 
Seal of truth, and bond of union. 

Source of hght, and flame of love. 
Symbol of divine communion. 
In the ohve-bearing dove; — 



THE HOLY SPIRIT. 125 

2 Heavenly Guide from paths of error. 

Comforter of minds distressed, — 
When the billows fill with terror, 

Pointmg to an ark of rest : 
Promised Pledge! eternal Spirit! 

Greater than all gifts below, — 
May our hearts thy grace inherit ; 

May our hps thy glories show. 

200 3d P. M. 4 6s & 2 8s. 

Eejoicing in the fulfilment of the promise, 

SINNEHS, hft up your hearts. 
The promise to receive; 
Jesus himself imparts, — 
He comes in man to Uve : 
The Holy Ghost to man is given ; 
Rejoice in God sent down from heaven, 

2 Jesus is glorified, 

And gives the Comforter, 
His Spirit, to reside 

In all his members here ; 
The Holy Ghost to man is given ; 
Rejoice in God sent down from heaven. 

3 To make an end of sin, 
And Satan's works destroy. 

He biings his kingdom in, — 
Peace, righteousness, and joy : 
The Holy Ghost to man is given; 
Rejoice in God sent down from heaven, 

4 From heaven he shall once more 
Triumphantly descend, 

And all his saints restore 
To joys that never end : 
Then, then, when all our joys are given. 
Rejoice in God, rejoice in heaven. 



126 THE HOLY SPIRIT. 

201 13th P. M. 10,10, 11,11. 

Bejoicing in thefreeness of the gift, 

ALL glory and praise to Jesus our Lord, 
So plenteous in grace, so true to his word ; 
To us he hath given the gift from above, — 
The earnest of heaven, the Spirit of love. 

2 The truth of our God we boldly assert ; 
His love shed abroad, and power in our ? jart. 
Ye all may inherit, on Jesus who call ; 

The gift of his Spirit is proflfer'd to all. 

3 His witness within, by faith we receive. 
And, ransom'd from sin, in righteousness Uve ; 
Through Jesus's passion we gladly possess 

A present salvation, — a kingdom of peace. 

4 The peace and the power, ye sinners, embrace, 
And look for the shower, — the Spirit of grace ; 
The gift and the Giver we all may receive. 
Forever and ever within us to live. 

202 ... ^-^' 

His universal diffusion. 

ON all the earth thy Spirit shower ; 
The earth in righteousness renew ; 
Thy kingdom come, and helFs o'erpower, 
And to thy sceptre all subdue. 

2 Like mighty winds, or torrents fierce. 
Let him opposers all o'errun; 

And every law of sin reverse. 

That faith and love may make all one. 

3 Yea, let him, Lord, in eveiy place 
His richest energy declare ; 

While lovely tempers, fruits of grace. 
The kingdom of thy Christ prepare. 

4 Grant this, holy God and true ; 
The ancient seers thou didst inspire, — 

To us perform the promise due,— 
Descend, and crown us now with fire. 



INSTITUTIONS OF THE GOSPEL. 



THE MINISTRY. - i 

203 .... L-M. J 

The ministry instituted. 4 

THE Saviour, when to heaven he rose, T 
In splendid triumph o'er his foes. 

Scattered his gifts on men below, ^ 

And still his royal bounties flow. .*• 

2 Hence sprang the' apostles' honour'd nam 3, 

Sacred beyond heroic fame : - • , 

In humbler forms, before our eyes, f 

Pastors and teachers hence arise. * 

3 From Christ they all their gifts derive, I 
And, fed by Christ, their graces hve: .? 
While, guarded by his mighty hand, ■*• 
'Midst all the rage of hell they stand. il 

4 So shall the bright succession run \\ 
Through all the courses of the sun ; ''^j 
While unborn churches, by their care, }' 
Shall rise and flomish large and fair. '-l 

5 Jesus, now teach our hearts to know i 
The spring whence all these blessings flow; j 
Pastors and people shout thy praise, '^ 
Through the long round of endless days. );■ 

204 L. M. ^ 

The commission. ^ 

GO, preach my Gospel, saith the Lord, 

Bid the whole world my grace receive; '■ 
He shall be saved who trusts my word. 

And he condemn'd who won't believe. ':] 

2 I '11 make your great commission known ; , ' 

And ye shall prove my Gospel true. ■ 
By all the works that I have done, 

By all the wonders ye shall do. . ' 



128 INSTITUTIONS OF THE GOSPEL. 

3 Teach all the nations my commands, — 
I 'm with you till the world shall end ; 

All power is trusted in my hands, — 
I can destroy, and I defend. 

205 s. k. 

The joyful sound, 

HOW beauteous are their feet 
Who stand on Zion's hill, — 
Who bring salvation on their tongues, 
And words of peace reveal ! 

2 How charming is theh voice, — 
So sweet the tidings are ; 

Zion, behold thy Saviour King ; 
He reigns and triumphs here. 

3 How happy are our ears, 
That hear the joyful sound. 

Which kings and prophets waited for. 
And sought, but never found. 

4 How blessed are our eyes, 
That see this heavenly light; 

Prophets and kings desired it long. 
But died without the sight. 

5 The watchmen join their voice. 
And tuneful notes employ ; 

Jerusalem breaks forth 'in songs, 
And deserts learn the joy. 

6 The Lord makes bare his arm 
Through all the earth abroad : 

Let every nation now behold 
Their Saviour and their God. 

206 0. M. 

The pastoral office. 

LET Zion's watchmen all awake. 
And take the' alarm they give ; 
Now let them from the mouth of God 
Their awful charge receive. 



THE MINISTRY. 129 

2 "lis not a cause of small import, 
The pastor's care demands ; 

But what might fill an angel's heart, 
And fill'd a Saviom-'s hands. 

3 They watch for souls for which the Lord 
Did heavenly bliss forego ; 

For souls, which must forever hve 
In raptures, or in wo. 

4 May they in Jesus, whom they preach, 
Their own Redeemer see ; 

And watch thou daily o'er their souls. 
That they may watch for thee. 

207 S. M. 

The labourers are few. 

LORD of the harvest, hear 
Thy needy sei-vants' cry; 
Answer our faith's effectual prayer, 
And all our wants supply. 

2 On thee we humbly wait, — 
Om' wants are in thy view ; 

The harvest, truly. Lord, is great. 
The labourers are few. 

3 Convert* and send forth more 
Into thy Church abroad. 

And let them speak thy word of power, 
As workers with their God. 

4 let them spread thy name, — 
Their mission fully prove ; 

Thy universal grace proclaim, — 
Thine all-redeeming love. 

208 L. M. 

Pastors after thine own heart, 

TESTIS, thy wand'ring sheep behold! 
J See, Lord, with yearning bowels, see. 
Poor souls that cannot find the fold. 
Till sought and gathered in by thee. 

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ISO INSTITUTIONS OF THE GOSPEL. 

2 Lost are they now, and scatter'd wide^ 
In pain, and weariness, and want : 

With no kind shepherd near, to guide 
The sick, and spiritless, and faint. 

3 Thou, only thou, the kind, and good. 
And sheep-redeeming, Shepherd art; 

Collect thy flock, and give them food, 
And pastors after thine own heart. 

4 Give the pure word of gen'ral grace. 
And great shall be the preachers' crowd: 

Preachers who all the sinful race 
Point to the all-atoning blood. 

5 Thine only glory let them seek ; 

let their hearts with love o'erflow ; 
Let them believe, and therefore speak. 
And spread thy mercy's praise below. 

209 L. M. 

Prepare ye the tuay of the Lord. 

COMFORT, ye ministers of grace. 
Comfort the people of your Lord ; 
lift ye up the fallen race. 

And cheer them by the Gospel word. 

2 Go into every nation, go; 

Speak to their trembling hearts, and cry,- - 
Glad tidings unto aU we show: 
Jerusalem, thy God is nigh. 

3 Hark ! in the wilderness a cry, 

A voice that loudly calls, — ^Prepare ; 
Prepare your hearts, for God is nigh, 
And waits to make his entrance theie. 

4 The Lord your God shall quickly come; 
Sinners, repent, the call obey: 

Open your hearts to make him room ; 
Ye desert souls, prepare the way. 



THE MINISTRY. 131 

5 The Lord shall clear his way through all ; 
Whatever obstructs, obstructs in vain; 

The vale shall rise, the mountain fall. 
Crooked be straight, and inigged plain, 

6 The glory of the Lord displayed 
Shall all mankind together view; 

And what his mouth in truth hath said. 
His own almighty hand shall do. 

210 . .CM. 

Let thy priests he clothed with salvation, 

JESUS, the word of mercy give. 
And let it swiftly run ; 
And let the priests themselves believe. 
And put salvation on. 

2 Jesus, let all thy servants shine 
Illustrious as the sun; 

And, bright with borrowed rays divine, 
Their gloiious circuit run. 

3 Beyond the reach of mortals, spread 
Their hght where'er they go ; 

And heavenly influences shed 
On all the world below. 

4 As giants may they run their race, 
Exulting in their might; 

As burning luminaries chase 
The gloom of helhsh night. 

5 As the bright Sun of righteousness, 
Then- healing wings display ; 

And let their lustre still increase 
Unto the perfect day. 

211 L. M. 

Labourers together ivith God, 

THUS saith the Lord — 'tis God commands ; 
Workers with God, the charge obey ; 
Remove whatever his work withstands, — 
Prepare, prepare his people's way. 



132 INSTITUTIONS OF THE GOSPEL. 

2 Lift up, for all mankind to see, 
The standard of their Saviour God, 

And point them to the shameful tree, — 
The cross, all stain'd with hallow'd blood. 

3 Himself prepares his people's hearts, — 
Breaks and binds up, and wounds and heals ; 

A mystic death and life imparts; 
Empties the full, the emptied fills: 

4 He fills whom first he hath prepared; 
With him the perfect grace is given: 

Himself is here our great reward, — 
Our future and our present heaven. 

212 S. M. 

Sow beside all waters. 

SOW in the morn thy seed; 
At eve hold not thy hand ; 
To doubt and fear give thou no heed, — 
Broad-cast it o'er the land. 

2 Thou know'st not which shall thrive,- — 
The late or early sown; 

Grace keeps the precious germ alive, 
When and wherever stro^vn : 

3 And duly shall appear. 

In verdure, beauty, strength. 
The tender blade, the stalk, the ear. 
And the full corn at length. 

4 Thou canst not toil in vain: 
Cold, heat, and moist, and dry. 

Shall foster and mature the grain 
For gamers in the sky. 

213 L. M. 

The angels of the churches, 

DRAW near, Son of God, draw near; 
Us with thy flaming eye behold ; 
Still in thy Church do thou appear. 
And let our candlestick be gold. 



THE MINISTRY. 133 

2 Still hold the stars in thy right hand. 
And let them in thy lustre glow, — 

The lights of a benighted land, 
The angels of thy Church below. 

3 Make good their apostolic boast ; 
Their high commission let them prove ; 

Be temples of the Holy Ghost, 

And fiird with faith, and hope, and love. 

4 Give them an ear to hear thy word; 
Thou speakest to the churches now: 

And let all tongues confess their Lord, — 
Let every knee to Jesus bow. 

214 s. M. 

For a blessing on ministers. 

JESUS, thy servants bless. 
Who, sent by thee, proclaim 
The peace, and joy, and righteousness 

Experienced in thy name: 
The kingdom of our God, — 

Which grace divine imparts ; 
The power of thy victorious blood, — 

Which reigns in faithful hearts. 
2 Their souls with faith supply,— 

With life and Uberty ; 
And then they preach and testify 

The things concerning thee : 
And live for this alone, — 

Thy grace to minister; 
And all thou hast for sinners done. 

In life and death declare. 

215 _ L. M. 

For the success of ministers. 

FATHER of mercies, bow thine ear. 
Attentive to our earnest prayer: 
We plead for those who plead for thee: 
Successful pleaders may they be. 



134 INSTITUTIONS OF THE GOSPEL. 

2 0, clothe their words with power divine. 
And let those words be ever thine ; 

To them thy sacred truth reveal; 
Suppress then* fear, inflame their zeal. 

3 Teach them to sow the precious seed; 
Teach them thy chosen flock to feed ; 
Teach them immortal souls to gain, — 
And thus reward their toil and pain. 

4 Let thronging multitudes around 
Hear from their lips the joyful sound ; 
In humble strains thy grace implore, 
And feel thy Spirit's living power. 

216 CM. 

God^s blessing ensures success. 
lyrOW, Lord, fulfil thy faithful word,— 
1\ Thy servants' labours bless ; 
Now let the prayer of faith be heard, 
And grant them full success. 

2 Long have they in thy vineyard wrought. 
And with unwearied toil ; 

Alas ! they spend their strength for naught. 
Upon a sterile soil. 

3 Arise, God, exert thy power ; 
Thy people's hopes sustain; 

And richly on thy vineyard shower 
The first and latter rain. 

4 Lord, we commend the work to thee; 
Thy servants guide and bless ; 

Tliy guidance gives security, — 
Thy blessing, — full success. 

217 L.M. 

He giveth the increase. 

HIGH on his everlasting throne, 
The King of saints his work surveys ; 
Marks the dear souls he calls his own. 
And smiles on the peculiar race. 



THE MINISTRY. 135 

2 He rests well pleased their toils to see ; 
Beneath his easy yoke they move : 

With all their heart and strength agree 
In the sweet labour of his love. 

3 See where the servants of the Lord, 
A busy multitude, appear: 

For Jesus day and night employ'd. 
His heritage they toil to clear. 

4 The love of Christ their hearts constrains, 
And strengthens their unwearied hands ; 

They spend their sweat, and blood, and pains, 
To cultivate ImmanueFs lands. 

5 Jesus their toil delighted sees. 
Their industry vouchsafes to crown: 

He kindly gives the wished increase. 
And sends the promised blessing down. 

218 4th P. M. 886,886. 

Entire dependence on Christ, 

EXCEPT the Lord conduct the plan. 
The best concerted schemes are vain. 
And never can succeed ; 
We spend our wretched strength for naught ; 
But if our works in thee be wrought. 
They shall be blest indeed. 

2 Lord, if thou didst thyself inspire 
Our souls with this mtense desire, 

Thy goodness to proclaim ; 
Thy glory if we now intend, 
let our deeds begin and end 

Complete in Jesus' name. 

3 In Jesus' name behold we meet, 
Far from an evil world retreat, 

And all its frantic ways ; 
One only thing resolved to know, 
And square our useful Uves below. 

By reason and by grace. 



136 INSTITUTIONS OF THE GOSPEL. 

4 Not in the lombs we pine to dwell. 
Not in the dark mon-astic cell, 

By vows and grates confined; 
Freely to all ourselves we give, 
Constrain'd by Jesus' love to live 

The servants of mankind. 

5 Now, Jesus/ now thy love impart. 
To govern each devoted heart, 

Aiid fit us for thy will ; 
Deep founded m the truth of grace. 
Build up thy rising Church, and place 

The city on the hill. 

6 let our love and faith abound ; 
let our lives, to all around, 

With purest lustre shine; 
That all around our works may see, 
And give the glory. Lord, to thee. 

The heavenly light divine. 

219 c. M. 

The minister's only business. 

JESUS, the Name high over all. 
In hell, or earth, or sky ; 
Angels and men before it fall. 
And devils fear and fly. 

2 Jesus, the Name to sinners dear, — 
The Name to sinners given; 

It scatters aU their guilty fear; 
It turns their hell to heaven. 

3 Jesus the pris'ner's fetters breaks. 
And bruises Satan's head ; 

Power into strengthless souls he speaks. 
And life into the dead. 

4 that the world might taste and see 
The riches of his grace ; 

The arms of love that compass me. 
Would all mankind embrace. 



THE MINISTRY. 137 

5 His only righteousness I show, — 
His saving truth proclaim: 

'Tis all my business here below, 
To cry, — Behold the Lamb ! 

6 Happy, if with my latest breath 
I may but gasp his name ; 

Preach him to all, and cry in death. 
Behold, behold the Lamb ! 

220 S.M. 

Success certain. 

LORD, if at thy command 
The word of life we sow, 
Water'd by thy almighty hand, 
The seed shall surely grow: 
The mtue of thy grace 

A large increase shall give. 
And multiply the faithful race, 
Who to thy glory live. 

2 Now, then, the ceaseless shower 

Of gospel blessings send, 
And let the soul-converting power 

Thy ministers attend. 
On multitudes confer 

The heart-renewing love. 
And by the joy of grace prepare 

For fuller joys above. 

221 s. M. 

Labourers in the vineyard oftlie Lord, 

AND let our bodies part, — 
To different climes repair; 
Inseparably join'd in heart 
The friends of Jesus are. 
2 let us still proceed 
In Jesus' work below; 
And, folFwrng our triumphant Head, 
To further conquests go. 



138 INSTITUTIONS OF THE GOSPEL. 

3 The vineyard of tlie Lord 
Before h^ laborers lies ; 

And lo ! we see the vast reward 
Which waits us in the skies. 

4 let our heart and mind 
Continually ascend, 

That haven of repose to find, 
Where all our labours end ; 

5 Where all our toils are o'er. 
Our suffering and our pain: 

Who meet on that eternal shore. 
Shall never part again. 

222 . S. M. 

Continued — Labourers rewarded. 

HAPPY, happy place. 
Where saints and angels meet ! 
There we shall see each other's face. 
And all our brethren greet. 

2 The Church of the first-bom. 
We shall with them be blest. 

And, crown'd with endless joy, return 
To our eternal rest. 

3 With joy we shall behold. 
In yonder blest abode. 

The patriarchs and prophets old, 
And all the saints of God. 

4 Abrah'm and Isaac, there. 
And Jacob, shall receive 

The foUVers of their faith and prayer, 
Who now in bodies live. 

5 We shall our time beneath 
Live out in cheerful hope. 

And fearless pass the vale of death. 
And gain the mountain top. 



THE CHURCH. 139 

6 To gather home his own, 

God shall his angels send, 
And bid our bhss, on earth begun, 

In deathless triumphs end. 



THE CHURCH. 

223 c. M. 

Founded on a Rock, 

VITH stately towers and bulwarks strongr, 
Unrivaird and alone, — 
Loved theme of many a sacred song, — 
God's holy city shone. 

2 Thus fair was Zion's chosen seat, 
The glory of all lands ; 

Yet fairer, and in strength complete. 
The Christian temple stands. 

3 The faithful of each clime and age 
This glorious Church compose; 

Built on a Rock, with idle rage 
The threat'ning tempest blows. 

4 Pear not; though hostile bands alarm. 
Thy God is thy defence ; 

And weak and powerless every arm 
Against Omnipotence. 

224 5th P. M. 4 K7^€5 7s. 

Prayer for her extension^ 

ON thy Church, Power divine, 
Cause thy glorious face to shine ; 
T?ll the nations, from afar. 
Hail her as their guiding star. 
2 Then shall God, with lavish hand. 
Scatter blessings o'er the land ; 
And the world's remotest bound 
With the voice of praise resound. 



140 INSTITUTIONS OF THE GOSPEL. 

225 L. M. 

Glorious and spotless. 

JESUS, from whom all blessings flow, 
Great Builder of thy Church below ; 
If now thy Spuit move my breast, 
Hear, and fulfil thine own request. 

2 The few that truly call thee Lord, 
And wait thy sanctif3ring word, 

And thee their utmost Saviour own ; — 
Unite and perfect them in one. 

3 let them all thy mind express, 
Stand forth thy chosen witnesses ; 
Thy power unto salvation show. 
And perfect hohness below. 

4 In them let all mankind behold 
How Christians lived in days of old ; 
Mighty their envious foes to move, — 
A proverb of reproach — and love. 

5 Call them into thy wondrous light, 
Worthy to walk with thee in white : 
Make up thy jewels. Lord, and show 
Thy glorious, spotless Church below. 

6 From every sinful wrinkle free. 
Redeemed from all iniquity. 

The fellowship of saints make known, 
And 0, my God, may I be one ! 

226 L. M. 

Continued — Witnesses for Jesus. 

MIGHT my lot be cast with these, 
The least of Jesus' witnesses ; 
O that my Lord would count me meet, 
To wash his dear disciples' feet ! 
2 This only thing do I require : 
Thou know'st 'tis all my heart's desire. 
Freely what I receive to give, — 
The servant of thy Church to live : — . 



THE CHURCH. 141 

3 After my lowly Lord to go, 
And wait upon thy saints below ; 
Enjoy the grace to angels given, 
And serve the royal heirs of heaven, 

4 Lord, if I now thy drawings feel. 
And ask according to thy will, 
Confirm the prayer, the seal impart, 
And speak the answer to my heart. 

5 Tell me, or thou shalt never go, — 
Thy prayer is heard ; it shall be so : 
The word hath pass'd thy lips, and I 
Shall with thy people live and die. 

227 L. M. 

The, river of life, 

GREAT Source of being and of love ! 
Thou wat'rest all the worlds above ; 
And all the joys which mortals know, 
From thine exhaustless fountain flow. 

2 A sacred spring, at thy command. 
From Zion's mount, in Canaan's land. 
Beside thy temple cleaves the ground, 
And pours its limpid stream aroimd. 

3 Close by its banks, in order fair. 
The bloommg trees of life appear ; 
Their blossoms fragrant odours give. 
And on their fruit the nations hve. 

4 Flow, wondrous stream ! with glory crown'd. 
Flow on to earth's remotest bound ; 

And bear us, on thy gentle wave. 
To Him who all thy virtues gave. 

228 . . c. M. 

The gates of hell shall not prevail against her. 

VHO make the Lord of hosts their tower. 
Shall like Mount Zion be, — 
Immovable by mortal power, — 
Built on eternity. 



142 INSTITUTIONS OF THE GOSPEL. 

2 As round about Jerusalem 
The guardian mountains stand, 

So shall the Lord encompass them 
Who hold by his right hand. 

3 The rod of wickedness shall ne'er 
Against the just prevail, 

Lest innocence should find a snare, 
And tempted virtue fail. 

4 Do good, Lord, do good to those 
Who cleave to thee in heart, — 

Who on thy truth alone repose, 
Nor from thy law depart. 

229 c. M. 

Returning to Zion ivith songs of joy. 

DAUGHTER of Zion, from the dust 
Exalt thy fallen head ; 
Again in thy Redeemer tinist, — 
He calls thee from the dead. 

2 Awake, awake, put on thy strength. 
Thy beautiful array ; 

The day of freedom dawns at length,- — 
The Lord's appointed day. 

3 Rebuild thy walls, thy bounds enlarge, 
And send thy heralds forth ; 

Say to the south, — Give up thy charge ! 
And, — Keep not back, north ! 

4 They come, they come : thine exiled bands, 
Where'er they rest or roam. 

Have heard thy voice in distant lands. 
And hasten to their home. 

5 Thus, though the universe shall bum. 
And God his works destroy. 

With songs thy ransom'd shall retmn. 
And everlasting joy. 



THE CHURCH. 143 

230 11th p. M. '76,76,77,76. 

Security and safety. 

SEE the gospel Church secure. 
And founded on a Rock ; 
All her promises are sure ; 

Her bulwarks who can shock? 
Count her every precious shrine ; 

Tell, to after-ages tell, — 
Fortified by power divine. 
The Church can never fail. 

2 Zion's God is all our own. 

Who on his love rely ; 
We his pard'ning love have known, 

And live to Christ, and die: 
To the New Jerusalem 

He our faithful Guide shall be; 
Him we claim, and rest in him. 

Through all eternity. 

231 . s. M. 

Her confidence and security, 

WHO in the Lord confide. 
And feel his sprinkled blood. 
In storms and hurricanes abide 
Firm as the mount of God : 
Steadfast, and fix'd, and siu-e. 

His Zion cannot move ; 
His faithful people stand secure 
In Jesus' guardian love. 

2 As round Jerusalem 

The hilly bulwarks rise. 
So God protects and covers them 

From all their enemies. 
On every side he stands. 

And for his Israel cares ; 
And safe in his almighty hands 

Their souls forever bears. 



144 INSTITUTIONS OF THE GOSPEL. 

232 . . S. M. 

Christ in you^ the hope of glory, 

VHERE is the Hebrews' God, 
Who kept them night and day? 
Where is the heavenly fire and cloud. 
Which show'd thy Church their way ? 

2 No symbol visible 

We of thy presence find ; 
Yet all who would obey thy will 
Shall know their Father's mind. 

3 Yes, Lord, thou still dost lead 
The children of thy grace. 

The chosen, the believing seed. 
Through this vast wilderness. 

4 Our chart, thy wiitten Word; 
The Holy Ghost, our guide ; 

And Christ, our glorious risen Lord, 
Doth in our hearts reside. 

233 9th P. M. 87,87,87,87- 

God is in the midst of her. 

GLORIOUS things of thee are spoken, 
Zion, city of our God ; 
He, whose word cannot be broken, 

Form'd thee for his own abode ; 
On the Rock of ages founded. 

What can shake thy sure repose? 
With salvation's walls surrounded. 

Thou may'st smile at all thy foes. 
2 See, the streams of living waters. 

Springing from eternal love. 
Still supply thy sons and daughters. 

And all fear of want remove: 
Who can faint while such a river 

Ever flows our thhst to' assuage ? 
Grace, which, like the Lord, the giver, 

Never fails from age to age. 



THE CHTJROR 145 

8 Round each habitation hov'iing, 

See the cloud and fire appear! 
For a glory and a covering, 

Showmg that the Lord is near : 
He who gives us daily manna, 

He who listens when we cry. 
Let him hear the loud Hosanna 

Rising to his throne on high. 

234 L. M. 

Put on thy beautiful garments^ Jerusalem, 

AWAKE, Jerusalem, awake, — 
No longer in thy sins he down: 
The garment of salvation take ; 

Thy beauty and thy strength put on. 

2 Shake off the dust that blinds thy sight, 
And hides the promise from thine eyes ; 

Arise, and struggle into hght; 
The great Dehv'rer calls, — Arise ! 

3 Shake off the bands of sad despair ; 
Zion, assert thy hberty; 

Look up, thy broken heart prepare. 
And God shall set the captive free. 

4 Vessels of mercy, sons of grace, 
Be purged from every sinful stain; 

Be like your Lord, his word embrace. 
Nor bear his hallow'd name in vain. 

235 L. M. 

The heavenly Zion. 

ARM of the Lord, awake, awake ! 
Thine own immortal strength put on ! 
"W^th terror clothed, hell's kingdom shake. 

And cast thy foes with fury down. 
2 As in the ancient days appear ! 

(The sacred annals speak thy fame ;) 
Be now omnipotently near, 
To endless ages still the same. 

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146 INSTITUTIONS OF THE GOSPEL. 

3 By death and hell pursued in vain. 

To thee the ransom'd seed shall come ; 
Shoutmg, then- heavenly Zion gain, 

And pass through death triumphant home. 

4 The pain of life shall then be o'er. 
The anguish and distracting care ; 

There sighing grief shall weep no more. 
And sin shall never enter there. 

236 8th P. M. 87,87,47. 
Her enemies confounded, 

ZION stands with hiUs surrounded, 
Zion, kept by power divine: 
All her foes shall be confounded. 
Though the world in arms combine: 

Happy Zion, — 
What a favour'd lot is thine ! 

2 Every human tie may perish ; 
Friend to friend unfaithful prove ; 

Mothers cease their own to cherish ; 
Heaven and earth at last remove ; 

But no changes 
Can attend Jehovah's love. 

3 In the furnace God may proVfe thee. 
Thence to bring thee forth more bright. 

But can never cease to love thee ; 
Thou art precious in his sight : 

God is with thee, — 
God, thine everlasting light, 

237 S. M. 

Love for Zion, 

I LOVE thy kingdom. Lord, — 
The house of thine abode, — 
The Church our blest Redeemer saved 
With his own precious blood. 



THE CHURCH. 147 ^ 

2 I love thy Church, God ! jj 
Her walls before thee stand, ;'; 

Dear as the apple of thine eye, :] 

And graven on thy hand. % 

3 For her my tears shall fall ; i 
For her my prayers ascend ; ; j 

To her my cares and toils be given, ,• 

Till toils and cares shall end. , ' 

4 Beyond my highest joy ^i 
I prize her heavenly ways ; 

Her sweet commmiion, solemn vows, ^i 

Her hymns of love and praise. f^ 

5 Sure as thy truth shall last, .v 
To Zion shall be given l; 

The brightest glories earth can yield, :';| 

And brighter bhss of heaven. "^ 

238 9th P. M. 87, 87, 87, 87. 'jj 

God her everlasting light. ^ 

HEAR what God the Lord hath spoken : '^j 

my people, faint and few, jI 
Comfortless, afflicted, broken. 

Fair abodes I build for you: !; 

Scenes of heartfelt tribulation ."^i 

Shall no more perplex your ways ; 'jj 

You shall name your walls salvation, ')*« 

And your gat€s shall all be praise. , i 

2 Ye, no more your suns descending. 

Waning moons no more shall see; l'.j 

But, your griefs forever ending, ;^^,' 

Find eternal noon in me: >] 

God shall rise, and, shining o'er you, ."j 

Change to day the gloom of night ; !'. j 

He, the Lord, shall be your glory — ;:1 

God your everlasting light. .J 



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148 INSTITUTIONS OF THE GOSPEL. 

THE SABBATH. 

239 1st P. M. 6 lines 8s. 
The day consecrated, 

GREAT God, this hallow'd day of thine 
Demands our soids' collected powers ; 
May we employ in works divine 

These solemn and devoted hours: 
may our souls, adoring, own 
The grace which calls us to thy throne. 

2 Hence, ye vain cares and trifles, fly ! 

Where God resides appear no more ! 
Omniscient Lord, thy piercing eye 

Doth every secret thought explore : 
may thy grace our thoughts refine. 
And fix our hearts on things divine ! 

240 c. M. 

J%e day improved, 

THIS day the Lord hath call'd his own ; 
Let us his praise declare. 
Fix our desires on him alone. 
And seek his face with prayer. 

2 Lord, in thy love we would rejoice. 
Which sets the sinner free. 

And, with imited heart and voice. 
Devote these hours to thee. 

3 Now let the world's delusive things 
No more our thoughts employ, 

But faith be taught to stretch her wings, 
Tow'rd heaven's unfailing joy. 

4 let these earthly Sabbaths, Lord, 
Be to our welfare blest ; 

The purest comfort here afford. 
And fit us for our rest. 



THE SABBATH. 149 

241 L. M. 

The joys of the Sahbath. 

SWEET is the work, my God, my Kiiig, 
To praise thy name, give thanks, and sing ; 
To show thy love by morning hght. 
And talk of all thy truth by night. 

2 Sweet is the day of sacred rest ; 
No mortal cares shall seize my breast; 
may my heart in time be found. 
Like David's harp of solemn sound. 

3 When grace has purified my heart, 
Then I shall share a glorious part: 
And fresh supphes of joy be shed, 
Like holy oil to cheer my head. 

4 Then shall I see, and hear, and know 
All I desired or wish'd below; 

And every power find sweet employ 
In that eternal world of joy. 

242 S. M. 

Delight in ordinances. 

VELCOME, sweet day of rest, 
That saw the Lord arise : 
Welcome to this reviving breast, 
And these rejoicing eyes ! 

2 The Eong himself comes near. 
And feasts his saints to-day; 

Here we may sit, and see him here. 
And love, and praise, and pray. 

3 One day in such a place. 
Where thou, my God, art seen. 

Is sweeter than ten thousand days 
Of pleasurable sin. 

4 My willing soul would stay 
In such a frame as this. 

And sit and sing herself away 
To everlasting bliss. 



150 INSTITUTIONS OF THE GOSPEL. 

243 L. M. 

In the Sanctuary, 

FAR from my thoughts, vain world, be gojie, 
Let my rehgious hours alone; 
Fain would mine eyes my Saviour see ; 

1 wait a visit, Lord, from thee. 

2 warm my heart with holy fire, 
And kindle there a pure desire : 
Come, sacred Spirit, from above. 
And fill my soul with heavenly love. 

3 Blest Saviour, what delicious fare ! 
How sweet thine entertainments are! 
Never did angels taste above 
Redeeming grace and dying love. 

4 Hail, great Immanuel, all divine ! 
In thee thy Father's glories shine ; 
Tliy glorious name shall be adored. 
And every tongue confess thee Lord. 

244 CM. 

We will rejoice and he glad in it, 

THIS is the day the Lord hath made: 
earth, rejoice and sing; 
Let songs of triumph hail the mom ; 
Hosanna to our King! 

2 The Stone the builders set at naught. 
That Stone has now become 

The sure foundation, and the strength 
Of Zion's heavenly dome. 

3 Christ is that stone, rejected once. 
And numbered with the slain ; 

Now raised in glory, o'er his Church 
Eternally to reign. 

4 This is the day the Lord hath made ; 
O earth, rejoice and sing : 

With songs of triumph hail the mom ; 
Hosanna to our King ! 



THE SABBATa 151 

245 3d P. M. 4 Cs & 2 8s. 

Joyful Iwmage, 

AWAKE> ye saints, awake ! 
And hail this sacred day: 
In loftiest songs of praise 
Your joyful homage pay : 
Come bless the day that God hath blest. 
The type of heaven's eternal rest. 

2 On this auspicious mom 
The Lord of life arose ; 

He burst the bars of death, 
And vanquished all our foes ; 
And now he pleads our cause above. 
And reaps the fruit of all his love. 

3 All hail, triumphant Lord! 
Heaven with hosannas rings, 

And earth, in humbler strains, 
Thy praise responsive sings: 
Worthy the Lamb, that once was slain. 
Through endless years to live and reign. 

246 C. M. 

Tlie type of everlasting rest, 

COME, let us join with one accord 
In hymns around the throne ; 
This is the day our rising Lord 
Hath made and call'd his own. 

2 This is the day which God hath blest, 
The brightest of the seven. 

Type of that everlasting rest 
The saints enjoy in heaven. 

3 Then let us in his name sing on. 
And hasten to that day 

When our Redeemer shall come down. 
And shadows pass away. 



152 INSTITUTIONS OF THE GOSPEL. 

4 Not one, but all our days below, 

Let us in hymns employ; 
And, in our Lord rejoicing, go 

To his eternal joy. 

247 L. M. 

Pledge of endless rest, 

RETURN, my soid, enjoy thy rest ; 
Improve the day thy God hath blest : 
Another six days' work is done; 
Another Sabbath is begun. 

2 that our thoughts and thanks may rise. 
As grateful incense to the skies; 

And draw from Christ that sweet repose. 
Which none but he that feels it knows. 

3 This heavenly calm within the breast. 
Is the dear pledge of glorious rest. 
Which for the Church of God remains. 
The end of cares, the end of pains. 

4 In holy duties, let the day. 
In holy comforts, pass away; 

How sweet, a Sabbath thus to spend. 
In hope of one that ne'er shall end. 

248 5th P. M. 4 lines Is. 

Life and immortality brought to light, 

DAY of God ! thou blessed day. 
At thy dawn the grave gave way 
To the power of Him within. 
Who had, sinless, bled for sin. 

2 Thine the radiance to illume 
First, for man, the dismal tomb. 
When its bars their weakness own'd. 
There revealing death dethroned. 

3 Then the Sun of righteousness 
Rose, a darken'd world to bless. 
Bringing up from mortal night 
Immortality and light. 



THE SABBATH. 153 

4 Day of glory, day of power, 
Sacred be thine eveiy hour, — 
Emblem, earnest, of the rest 
That remaineth for the blest. 

249 S. M. 

The eternal Sabbath, 

HAIL to the Sabbath-day ! 
The day divinely given. 
When men to God their homage pay. 
And earth draws near to heaven. 

2 Lord, in tliis sacred horn-. 
Within thy courts we bend, 

And bless thy love, and own thy power, 
Our Father and our Friend. 

3 But thou art not alone 

In courts by mortals trod ; 
Nor only is the day thine own 
When man draws near to God : — 

4 Thy temple is the arch 
Of yon unmeasured sky; 

Thy Sabbath, the stupendous march 
Of vast eternity. 

5 Lord, may that hoUer day 
Dawn on thy servants' sight ; 

And purer worship may we pay 
In heaven's unclouded light. 

250 C.M. 

In the Spirit on the Lord's day, 

MAT I, throughout this day of thine, 
Be in thy Spirit, Lord, — 
Spirit of humble fear divine, 

That trembles at thy word. 
2 Spirit of faith, my heart to raise. 

And fix on things above ; 
Spirit of sacrifice and praise. 
Of holiness and love. 



154 INSTITUTIONS OF THE GOSPEL. 

251 L. M. 

Anticipating the heavenly Sabbath. 

LORD of the Sabbath, hear us pray. 
In this thy house, on this thy day; 
And own, as grateful sacrifice, 
The songs which from thy servants rise. 

2 Thine earthly Sabbaths, Lord, we love, 
But there 's a nobler rest above ; 

To that our laboring souls aspire, 
With ardent hope, and strong desire. 

3 No more fatigue, no more distress, 
Nor sin nor hell shall reach the place ; 
No sighs shall mingle with the songs. 
Which warble from immortal tongues. 

4 No rude alarms of raging foes ; 
No cares to break the long repose ; 
No midnight shade, no clouded sun; 
But sacred, high, eternal noon. 

6 long-expected day, begin ; 
Dawn on these realms of wo and sin : 
Fain would we leave this weary road. 
And sleep in death, to rest with God. 

252 S. M. 

Joyful in the house of prayer, 
r\ LAD was my heart to hear 
VT My old companions say, — 
Come, in the house of God appear; 
For 'tis a holy day. 

2 Thither the tribes repair. 
Where all are wont to meet ; 

And, joyful in the house of prayer, 
Bend at the mercy-seat. 

3 Pray for Jerusalem, 
The city of our God ! 

Lord, send thy blessings down to them 
That love the dear abode ! 



BAPTISM. 155 

4 Within these walls, may peace 
And harmony be fomid ! 

Zion, in all thy palaces. 
Prosperity abound ! 

5 For friends and brethren dear. 
Our prayer shall never cease : 

Oft as they meet for worship here, 
God send his people peace ! 



BAPTISM. 



253 3d P. M. 4 6s& 2 8s. 
In the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, 

BAPTIZED into thy name, 
Mysterious One in Three, 
Our souls and bodies claim 
A sacrifice to thee : 
And let us live our faith to prove. 
The faith which works by humble love 
2 that our light may shine. 

And all our hves express 
The character divine, 
The real holiness; 
And then receive us up to' adore 
The triune God forever more. 

254 c. M. 

The covenant with Abraham, 

HOW large the promise, how divine. 
To Abrah'm and his seed, — 

1 am a God to thee and thine. 
Supplying all their need. 

2 The words of his unbounded love 
From age to age endure ; 

The Angel of the Covenant proves 
And seals the blessing sm-e. 



156 ESrSTITUTIONS OF THE GOSPEL 

3 Jesus the ancient faith confirms, 
To our great father given ; 

He takes our children to his arms, 
And calls them heirs of heaven. 

4 God, how faithful are thy ways! 
Thy love endures the same ; 

Nor from the promise of thy grace 
Blots out our children's name. 

255 L. M. 

The. sacramental seal, 

COME, Father, Son, and Holy iShost, 
Honour the means ordain'd by thee ; 
Make good our apostoUc boast. 
And own thy glorious ministry. 

2 We now thy promised presence claim ; 
Sent to disciple all mankind, — 

Sent to baptize into thy name, — 
We now thy promised presence find. 

3 Father, in these reveal thy Son ; 

In these, for whom we seek thy face. 
The hidden mystery make known, 
The inward, pure, baptizing grace. 

4 Jesus, with us thou always art; 
Effectual make the sacred sign; 

The gift unspeakable impart. 
And bless the ordinance divine. 

5 Eternal Spirit, from on high, 
Baptizer of our spirits thou. 

The sacramental seal apply. 

And witness with the water now. 

256 c. M. 

Suffer the little children to come unto me. 

SEE, Israel's gentle Shepherd stands 
With all-engaging charms; 
Hark, how he calls the tender lambs. 
And folds them in his arms. 



BAPTISM. 157 

2 Pennit them to approach, he cries, 
Nor scorn their humble name ; 

For 'twas to bless such souls as these 
The Lord of angels came. 

3 We bring them, Lord, in thankful hands, 
And yield them up to thee ; 

Joyful that we ourselves are thine. 
Thine let our offspring be. 

257 . . S. M. 

God's gracious promises, 

OUR children thou dost claim, 
Lord our God, as thine : 
Ten thousand blessings to thy Name, 
For goodness so divine. 

2 Thee let the fathers own, 
Thee let the sons adore ; 

Join'd to the Lord in solemn vows, 
To be forgot no more. 

3 How great thy mercies. Lord ! 
How plenteous is thy grace. 

Which, in the promise of thy love. 
Includes our rising race. 

4 Our offspring, still thy care, 
Shall own their father's God ; 

To latest times thy blessings share, 
And soimd thy praise abroad. 

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Little ones brought to Jesus, 

TESUS, kind, inviting Lord, 
J We with joy obey thy word. 
And in earUest infancy 
Bring our Uttle ones to thee. 
2 Bom they are, as we, in sin ; 
Make the' unconscious lepers clean ; 
Purchase of thy blood they are, — 
Let them in thy glory share. 



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The ^pirifs hcdlomng seal, 

r^ OD of eternal truth and love, 
VX Vouchsafe the promised aid we claim, 
Thine own great ordinance approve ; 
The child, baptized into thy name. 
Partaker of thy nature make. 
And give him all thine image back. 

2 Father, if such thy sovereign will. 
If Jesus did the rite enjoin. 

Annex thy haU'wing Sphit's seal. 

And let thy grace attend the sign : 
The seed of endless hfe impart ; 
Take for thine own this infant's heart. 

3 Answer on him thy wisdom's end. 
In present and eternal good ; 

Whate'er thou didst for man intend, 

Whate'er thou hast on man bestow'd, 
Now to this favour'd child be given, 
Pardon, and holiness, and heaven. 

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A blessing on the ordinance, 

GREAT God, now condescend 
To bless our rising race ; 
Soon may their willing spirits bend. 
The subjects of thy grace. 

2 O what a pm^e delight 
Their happiness to see ; 

Our warmest wishes all imite. 
To lead their souls to thee. 

3 Now bless, thou God of love. 
This ordinance divine; 

Send thy good Spirit from above. 
And make these children thine. 



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Children in the arms of Jesus, 

BEHOLD what condescending love 
Jesus on earth displays ! — 
To babes and sucklings he extends 
The riches of his grace. 

2 He still the ancient promise keeps, 
To our forefathers given ; 

Young children in his arms he takes. 
And calls them heirs of heaven. 

3 Forbid them not, whom Jesus calls, 
JSTor dare the claim resist, 

Since his own lips to us declare 
Of such will heaven consist. 

4 With flowing tears, and thankful hearts. 
We give them up to thee ; 

Receive them, Lord, into thine arms ; 
Thine may they ever be. 

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Baptized into his death. 

JESUS, we lift our souls to thee ; 
Thy Holy Spirit breathe, 
And let this httle infant be 
Baptized into thy death. 

2 O let thine unction on him rest. 
Thy grace his soul renew, 

And write within his tender breast 
Thy name and nature too. 

3 K thou shouldst quickly end his days, 
His place with thee prepare; 

And if thou lengthen out his race. 
Continue still thy care. 

4 Thy faithful servant let him prove. 
Begirt with truth divine ; 

A sharer in thy dying love, 
A follower of thine. 



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THE LORD'S SUPPER. 

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Its institution, 

IN that sad, memorable night, 
When Jesus was for us betray'd. 
He left his death-recording rite : 

He took, and blest, and brake the bread ; 
And gave his own their last bequest. 
And thus his love's intent express'd : — 

2 Take, eat, this is my body, given 

To purchase life and peace for you,— 
Pardon, and holiness, and heaven: 

Do this, my dying love to show: 
Accept your precious legacy. 
And thus, my friends, remember me. 

3 He took into his hands the cup. 
To crown the sacramental feast. 

And, full of kind concern, look'd up. 

And gave to them what he had blest: 
And, — Drink ye all of this, — he said, — 
In solemn mem'ry of the dead. 

4 This is my blood, which seals the new 
Eternal covenant of my grace : 

My blood, so freely shed for you. 
For you and all the sinful race: 
My blood, that speaks your sins forgiven, 
And justifies your claim to heaven. 

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Its design. 

THAT doleful night before his death, 
The Lamb, for sinners slain. 
Did, almost with his dying breath. 
This solemn feast ordain. 



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2 To keep the feast, Lord, we have met, 
And to remember thee : 

Help each poor trembler to repeat, — . 
For me he died, for me ! 

3 Thy suflf'rmgs, Lord, each sacred sign 
To our remembrance brings : 

We eat the bread, and drink the wine. 
But think on nobler things. 

4 tune our tongues, and set in frame 
Each heart that pants for thee, 

To sing, — Hosanna to the Lamb, 
The Lamb that died for me ! 

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Approaching the taUe. 

JESUS, at whose supreme command, 
We now approach to God, 
Before us in thy vesture stand. 
Thy vesture dipp'd in blood. 

2 Now, Saviour, now thyself reveal, 
And make thy nature known; 

Affix thy blessed Spirit's seal. 
And stamp us for thine own. 

3 The tokens of thy dying love, 
let us all receive. 

And feel the quick'ning Spirit move. 
And sensibly beUeve. 

4 The cup of blessing, blest by thee, 
Let it thy blood impart ; 

The bread thy mystic body be, 
Tc cheer each languid heart. 

5 The living bread sent down from heaven. 
In us vouchsafe to be : 

Thy flesh for all the world is given, 
And all may live by thee. 

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The invitation. 

THE King of heaven his table spreads. 
And blessings crown the board; 
Not Paradise, with all its joys. 
Could such delight afford. 

2 Pardon and peace to dying men. 
And endless life are given. 

Through the rich blood that Jesus shed. 
To raise our souls to heaven. 

3 MilUons of souls, in glory now. 
Were fed and feasted here; 

And millions more, still on the way, 
Around the board appear. 

4 All things are ready, come away. 
Nor weak excuses frame ; 

Crowd to your places at the feast, 
And bless the Founder's name. 

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Our Paschal LamK 

LET all who truly bear 
The bleeding Saviour's name. 
Their faithful hearts with us prepare. 
And eat the Paschal Lamb. 

2 This eucharistic feast. 
Our eveiy want supphes. 

And still we by his death are blest. 
And share his sacrifice. 

3 Who thus our faith employ, 
His suff 'rings to record, 

E'en now we mournfully enjoy 
Communion with our Lord. 

4 We too with him are dead. 
And shall with him arise; 

The cross on which he bows his head 
Shall lift us to the skies. 



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Grateful remembrance. 

ACCORDINGr to thy gracious word. 
In meek humility, 
This will I do, my dying Lord, — 
I will remember thee. 

2 Thy body, broken for my sake, 
My bread from heaven shall be : 

Thy testamental cup I take, 
And thus remember thee. 

3 Gethsemane can I forget? 
Or there thy conflict see, 

Thine agony and bloody sweat. 
And not remember thee ? 

4 When to the cross I turn mine eyes. 
And rest on Calvary, 

O Lamb of God, my Sacrifice, 
I must remember thee ! 

5 Remember thee and all thy pains. 
And all thy love to me ; 

Yea, while a breath, a pulse remains. 
Will I remember thee. 

6 And when these failing hps grow dumb. 
And mind and memory flee. 

When thou shalt in thy kingdom come, 
Jesus, remember me. 

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The opened Fountain. 

CALL'D from above, I rise, 
And wash away my sin; 
The stream to which my spirit flies. 

Can make the foulest clean. 
2 It runs di^dnely clear, 

A fountain deep and wide : 
'Twas open'd by the soldier's spear. 
In my Redeemer's side. 



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Gratitude and love. 

r' human kindness meets retm-n, 
And owns the grateful tie; — 
If tender thoughts within us bmn 
To feel a friend is nigh; — 

2 0, shall not warmer accents tell 
The gratitude we owe 

To Him who died our fears to quell, 
And save from endless wo ? 

3 While yet in anguish he surveyed 
Those pangs he would not flee, 

What love his latest words displayed ! — 
Meet and remember me. 

4 Remember thee ! thy death, thy shame, 
The griefs which thou didst bear! 

O mem'ry, leave no other name 
So deeply graven there. 

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Figure and means ofsamng grace. 

AUTHOR of our salvation, thee. 
With lowly, thankful hearts, we praise; 
Author of this great mystery, — 
Figm^e and means of saving grace. 

2 The sacred, tnie, effectual sign. 
Thy body and thy blood it shows; 

The glorious instrument divine, 

Thy mercy and thy strength bestows. 

3 We see the blood that seals our peace : 
Thy pardoning mercy we receive ; 

The bread doth visibly express 

The strength through which our spirits live, 

4 Om' spirits drink a fresh supply. 
And eat the bread so freely given. 

Till, borne on eagles' wings, we fly. 
And banquet with our Lord in heaven. 



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Discerning the LorcTs body. 

JESUS, all-redeeming Lord, 
Magnify thy dying word; 
In thine ordinance appear ; 
Come, and meet thy follSvers here. 

2 In the rite thou hast enjom'd. 
Let us now our Savioiu' find ; 
Drink thy blood for sinners shed, 
Taste thee in the broken bread. 

3 Thou our faithful hearts prepare ; 
Thou thy pard'ning grace declare : 
Thou that hast for smners died. 
Show thyself the Crucified ! 

4 x\.ll the power of sin remove ; 
Fill us with thy perfect love ; 
Stamp us with the stamp divine ; 
Seal our souls forever thine. 

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Strength renewed, 

OGOD, unseen, yet ever near, 
Thy presence may we feel ; 
And thus, inspired with holy fear. 
Before thy table kneel. 

2 Here may thy faithful people know 
The blessings of thy love ; 

The streams that through the desert flow,— 
The manna from above. 

3 We come, obedient to thy word, 
To feast on heavenly food; 

Our meat, the body of the Lord, 
Our drink, his precious blood. 

4 Thus may we all thy words obey; 
For we, God, are thine ; 

And go rejoicing on our way, 
Renew'd with strength divine. 



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The supper of the Lamb, 

THEE, King of samts, we praise 
For this our living bread; 
Nourish'd by thy preserving gi-ace-, 
And at thy table fed. 

2 Yet still a higher seat 
We in thy kingdom claim, 

Who here begin by faith to eat 
The supper of the Lamb. 

3 That glorious, heavenly prize, 
We sm-ely shall attain, 

And, in the palace of the skies, 
With thee forever reign. 

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Obeying the command, 

JESUS, we thus obey 
Thy last and kindest word ; 
Here, in thine own appointed way. 
We come to meet our Lord. 

2 The way thou hast enjoin'd. 
Thou wilt therein appear ; 

We come with confidence to find 
Thy special presence here. 

3 Whate'er the' Almighty can 
To pardon'd sinners give. 

The fulness of our God made man, 
We here with Christ receive. 

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The efficacy of the atoning blood, 

VICTIM divine ! thy grace we claim 
While thus thy precious death we show; 
Once ofier'd up a spotless Lamb, 

In thy great temple here below. 
Thou didst for all mankind atone, 
And standest now before the throne. 



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2 Thou standest in the holiest place, 
As now for guilty sinners slain ; 

The blood of sprinkling speaks, and prays. 

All-prevalent for helpless man ; 
Thy blood is still our ransom found. 
And speaks salvation all around. 

3 We need not now go up to heaven 

To bring the long-sought Saviour down; 
Thou art to all already given. 

Thou dost e'en now thy banquet crown ; — 
To every faithful soul appear. 
And show thy real presence here. 

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A foretaste of glory, 

OWHAT dehght is this. 
Which now in Christ we know, — 
An earnest of our glorious bliss. 
Our heaven begun below ! 

2 When He the table spreads, 
How royal is the cheer ; 

With raptui'e we lift up our heads. 
And own that God is here. 

3 The Lamb for sinners slain, 
Who died to die no more. 

Let all the ransom'd sons of men. 
With all his hosts, adore. 

4 Let earth and heaven be join'd, 
His glories to display. 

And hymn the Saviour of mankind 
In one eternal day. 

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Rejoicing at the tahle^ with godly sorrow, 

TO Jesus, our exalted Lord, 
The Name by heaven and earth adored. 
Fain would our hearts and voices raise 
A cheerful song of sacred praise. 



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2 But all the notes which mortals know. 
Are weak, and langiiishmg, and low; 
Far, far above our humble songs, 

The theme demands immortal tongues. 

3 Yet while around his board we meet, 
And humbly worship at his feet, 

let our warm affections move. 
In glad returns of giateful love ! 

4 Let humble, penitential wo. 
In tears of godly sorrow flow ; 
And thy forgiving smiles impart 
Life, hope, and joy to every heart. 

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The Spirifs quickening influences. 

COME, thou everlasting Spirit, 
Bring to every tlianfiful mind 
All the Saviour's dying merit. 

All his sujff 'rings for mankind : 
True recorder of his passion, 

Now the living faith impart; 
Now reveal his great salvation 

Unto every faithful heart. 
2 Come, thou Witness of his dying ; 

Come, Remembrancer di^one; 
Let us feel thy power applying 

Christ to every so il, and mine : 
Let us groan thine inward groaning; 

Look on Him we pierced, and grieve; 
All partake the grace atoning, — 

All the sprinkled blood receive. 

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Universal gladness and joy, 

GLORY to God on high. 
Our peace is made with Heaven; 
The Son of God came down to die, 
That we might be forgiven. 



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2 His precious blood was shed. 
His body bruised, for sin : 

Remember this in eatmg bread, 
And this in drinking wine. 

3 Approach his royal board. 
In his rich garments clad ; 

Join every tongue to praise the Lord, 
And every heart be glad. 

4 The Father gives the Son; 
The Son, his flesh and blood : 

The Spirit seals ; and faith puts on 
The righteousness of God. 

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The heavenly banquet 

JESUS spreads his banner o'er us, 
Cheers our famish'd souls with food ; 
He the banquet spreads before us, 

Of his mystic flesh and blood. 
Precious banquet ; bread of heaven ; 

Wine of gladness, flowing free ; 
May we taste it, kindly given, 

In remembrance. Lord, of thee. 
2 In thy holy incarnation. 

When the angels sang thy birth ; 
In thy fasting and temptation ; 

In thy laboui's on the earth ; 
In thy trial and rejection ; 

In thy sufferings on the tree ; 
In thy glorious resurrection ; 

May we. Lord, remember thee. 

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Pardon — grace — ghry. 

SONS of God, triumphant rise ; 
Shout the' accomplished sacrifice ; 
Shout yom^ sins in Christ forgiven, — 
Sons of God, and heirs of heaven. 



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2 Love's mysterious work is done ; 
Greet we now the' atoning Son ; 
Heal'd and quicken'd by his blood, 
Join'd to Christ, and one with God. 

3 Him by faith we taste below. 
Mightier joys ordain'd to know ; 
"When his utmost grace we prove. 
Rise to heaven by perfect love. 

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For a parting blessing, 

LAMB of God, whose dying love 
We now recall to mind, 
Send the answer from above, 

And let us mercy find : 
Think on us who think on thee. 

And every struggling soul release; 
O remember Calvary, 
And bid us go in peace! 

2 By thine agonizing pain, 

Aid bloody sweat, we pray, — 
By thy dying love to man, — 

Take all om- sins away : 
Burst our bonds, and set us free; 

From all iniquity release; 
remember Calvary, 

And bid us go in peace ! 

3 Let thy blood, by faith applied. 
The sinner's pardon seal; 

Speak us freely justified, 

And all our sickness heal : 
By thy passion on the tree. 

Let all our griefs and troubles cease; 
O remember Calvary, 

And bid us go in peace ! 



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OF THE GOSPEL. 



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TJie Jbuntain of living waters. 

A FOUNTAIN of life and of grace 
In Cliiist, our Redeemer, we see: 
For us, who his oflfers embrace, 

For all, it is open and free : 
Jehovah, himself, doth invite 

To drink of his pleasures unknown : 
The streams of immortal delight. 

That flow from his heavenly throne. 
2 As soon as in him we beheve, 

By faith of his Spirit we take : 
And, freely forgiven, receive 

The mercy for Jesus's sake ! 
We gain a pure drop of his love ; 

The life of eternity know ; 
Angelical happiness prove. 

And witness a heaven below. 

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All'Suffidency of the gospel. 

THE gospel! 0, what endless charms 
Dwell in that bhssful sound; 
Its influence every fear disarms. 
And spreads dehght around. 

2 Here pardon, life, and joy divine, 
In rich efiusion flow, 

For guilty rebels, lost in sin. 
And doom'd to endless wo. 

3 The' almighty Former of the skies 
Stoops to our vile abode ; 

While angels \TLew with wond'ring eyes. 
And hail the' incarnate God. 



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4 How rich the depths of love divine ! 
Of bliss a boundless store ! 

Redeemer, let me call thee mine, — 
Tliy fulness I implore. 

5 On thee alone my hope rehes ; 
Beneath thy cross I fall; 

My Lord, my life, my sacrifice, 
My Saviour, and my all ! 

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Our debt paid upon the cross, 

¥HAT majesty and grace 
Through all the gospel shine ! 
'Tis God that speaks, and we confess 
The doctrine most divine. 

2 Down from his throne on high, 
The mighty Saviour comes ; 

Lays his bright robes of glory by, 
And feeble flesh assumes. 

3 The debt that sinners owed, 
Upon the cross he pays : 

Then through the clouds ascends to God, 
'Midst shouts of loftiest praise. 

4 There our High Priest appears, 
Before his Father's throne ; 

Mingles his merits with our tears. 
And pours salvation down. 

5 Great Sov'reign, we adore 
Thy justice and thy grace, 

And on thy faithfulness and power 
Our firm dependence place. 

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The divine Teacher, 

HOW sweetly flow'd the gospel's sound 
From lips of gentleness and grace, 
Wliile hst'ning thousands gathered round, 
And joy and rev'rence fill'd the place. 



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2 From heaven he came, of heaven he spoke, 
To heaven he led his foll'werb way ; 

Dark clouds of gloomy night he broke, 
Unveiling an immortal day. 

3 Come, wand'rers, to my Father's home; 
Come, all ye weary ones, and rest. 

Yes, sacred Teacher ! we will come. 
Obey, and be forever blest. 

4 Decay, then, tenements of dust ! 
Pillars of earthly pride, decay ! 

A nobler mansion waits the just. 
And Jesus has prepared the way. 

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AU'Suffident grace. 

GRACE ! 'tis a charming sound. 
Harmonious to the eai-; 
Heaven with the echo shall resound. 
And all the earth shall hear. 

2 Grace fct contrived a way 
To save rebellious man ; 

And all the steps that grace display. 
Which drew the wondrous plan. 

3 Grace taught my roving feet 
To tread the heavenly road ; 

And new supphes each hour I meet, 
While pressing on to God. 

4 Grace all the work shall crown. 
Through everlasting days ; 

It lays in heaven the topmost stone. 
And well deserves our praise. 

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The wonders of redemption. 

HOW great the wisdom, power, and grace, 
Which in redemption shine; 
The heavenly host with joy confess 
The work is all di^dne. 



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2 Before his feet they cast their crowns, — 
Those crowns which Jesus gave, — 

And, with ten thousand thousand tongues. 
Proclaim his power to save. 

3 They tell the triumphs of his cross. 
The sufferings which he bore; 

How low jae stoop 'd, how high he rose, — 
And rose to stoop no more. 

4 With them let us our voices raise, 
And still the song renew ; 

Salvation well deserves the praise 
Of men and angels too. 

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Efficacy oftJie atoning blood, 

THERE is a fountain fill'd with blood. 
Drawn from ImmanueFs veins ; 
And sinners, plunged beneath that flood, 
Lose all their guilty stains. 

2 The dying thief rejoiced to see 
That fountain in his day ; 

And there may I, though vile as he. 
Wash all my sins away. 

3 Thou dying Lamb ! thy precious blood 
Shall never lose its power, 

Till all the ransom'd Church of God 
Are saved, to sin no more. 

4 E'er since, by faith, I saw the stream 
Thy flowing wounds supply. 

Redeeming love has been my theme. 
And shall be, till I die. 

b Then in a nobler, sweeter song, 

I '11 sing thy power to save. 
When this poor lisping, stammVing tongue, 

Lies silent in the grave. 



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The joyful sound. 

SALVATION ! O the joyful sound ! 
What pleasure to oui' ears ; 
A sovereign balm for every wound, 
A cordial for our fears. 

2 Salvation ! let the echo fly 
The spacious earth around, 

Wliile all the armies of the sky 
Conspire to raise the sound. 

3 Salvation ! thou bleeding Lamb ! 
To thee the praise belongs : 

Salvation shall inspire our hearts, 
And dwell upon our tongues. 

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Love which passeth knowledge, 

OF Him who did salvation bring, 
I could forever think and sing ; 
Arise, ye needy, — he 11 relieve ; 
Arise, ye guilty, — he '11 forgive. 

2 Ask but his grace, and lo, 'tis given; 
Ask, and he turns your hell to heaven: 
Though sin and son'ow wound my soul, 
Jesus, thy balm will make it whole. 

3 To shame oui' sins he blush 'd in blood ; 
He closed his eyes to show us God : 

Let all the world fall down and know. 
That none but God such love can show. 

4 'Tis thee I love, for thee alone 

I shed my tears and make my moan; 
Where'er I am, where'er I move, 
I meet the object of my love. 

5 Insatiate to this spring I fly; 
I diink, and yet am ever dry: 

Ah! who against thy charms is proof? 
Ah ! who that loves, can love enough ? 



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Calvary, 

WHEN on Sinai's top I see 
God descend, in majesty. 
To proclaim his holy law, 
All my spirit sinks with awe. 

2 When, in ecstasy subhme. 
Tabor's glorious steep I climb, 
At the too transporting light, 
Darkness rushes o'er my sight. 

3 When on Calvary I rest, 
God, in flesh made manifest. 
Shines in my Redeemer's face. 
Full of beauty, truth, and grace. 

4 Here I would forever stay, — 
Weep and gaze my soul away; 
Thou art heaven on earth to me. 
Lovely, mom^nful Calvary. 

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Sufficiency andfreeness, 

OWHAT amazing words of grace 
Are in the gospel found ! 
Suited to every sinner's case. 
Who knows the joyful sound. 

2 Poor, sinful, thirsty, fainting souls, 
Are freely welcome here; 

Salvation, like a river, rolls. 
Abundant, free, and clear. 

3 Come, then, with all your wants and wounds ; 
Your every burden bring : 

Here love, unchanging love, abounds, — 
A deep, celestial spring. 

4 Whoever will — gracious word ! — 
May of this stream pai-take ; 

Come, thirsty souls, and bless the Lord. 
And drink, for Jesus' sake. 



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5 Millions of sinners, vile as you. 
Have here found life and peace; 

Come, then, and prove its vu-tues too. 
And drink, adore, and bless. 

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Christy the only source of salvation. . 

GOD'S holy law transgressed. 
Speaks nothing but despair; 
Convinced of guilt, with grief oppress'd. 
We find no comfort there. 

2 Not all our gi'oans and tears, 
Nor works wliich we have done, 

Nor vows, nor promises, nor prayers, 
Can e'er for sm atone. 

3 Relief alone is found 

In Jesus' precious blood: 
'Tis this that heals the mortal wound, 
And reconciles to God. 

4 This is salvation's source; 
And al] our hopes arise 

From Him, who, hanging on the cross, 
A spotless victim dies. 

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Hie precious Name. 

HOW sweet the name of Jesus soimds 
In a believer's ear; 
It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds. 
And drives aT7ay his fear. 

2 It makes the wounded spirit whole, 
And calms the troubled breast ; 

'lis manna to the hungry soul, 
And to the weary, rest. 

3 Dear Name, the rock on which I build. 
My shield and hiding-place; 

My never-failing-treasure, fill'd 
With boundless stores of grace : 

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4 Jesus, my Shepherd, Saviour, Friend^ 
My Prophet, Priest, and King, 

My Lord, my Life, my Way, my End, 
Accept the praise I bring. 

5 I would thy boundless love proclaim 
With every fleeting breath ; 

So shall the music of thy name 
Refresh my soul in death. 

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The unspeakable gifl. 

HAPPY the man who finds the grace. 
The blessing of God's chosen race. 
The wisdom coming from above. 
The faith that sweetly works by love. 

2 Happy, beyond description, he 
Who knows the Saviour died for me ! 
The gift unspeakable obtains. 

And heavenly understanding gains. 

3 Wisdom divine ! who tells the price 
Of wisdom's costly merchandise ? 
Wisdom to silver we prefer. 

And gold is dross compared to her. 

4 Her hands are fill'd with length of days, 
True riches, and immortal praise, — 
Riches of Christ on all bestow'd. 

And honour that descends from God. 

5 To purest joys she all invites, — 
Chaste, holy, spiritual delights; 
Her ways are ways of pleasantness. 
And all her flowery paths are peace. 

6 Happy the man who wisdom gains ; 
Thrice happy, who his guest retains : 
He owns, and shall forever own, 
Wisdom, and Christ, and heaven, are one/ 



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He voaiteth to he gracious. 

THY ceaseless, unexhausted love, 
Unmerited and free, 
Delights our evil to remove, 
And help our misery. 

2 Thou waitest to be gracious still ; 
Thou dost with sinners bear ; 

That, saved, we may thy goodness feel, 
And all thy grace declare. 

3 Thy goodness and thy truth to me. 
To every soul, abound; 

A vast, unfathomable sea. 

Where all our thoughts are drown'd. 

4 Its streams the whole creation reach, 
So plenteous is the store ; 

Enough for all, enough for each. 
Enough forever more. 

5 Faithful, Lord, thy mercies are, — 
A rock that cannot move : 

A thousand promises declare 
Thy constancy of love. 

6 Throughout the universe it reigns. 
Unalterably sure; 

And while the truth of God remains. 
His goodness must endure. 

299 \ L.M. 

Universal redemption. 

SINNERS, obey the heavenly call ; 
Your prison doors stand open wide : 
Go forth, for Christ hath ransom'd all. 

For every soul of man hath died. 
2 'Tis his the drooping soul to raise ; 

To rescue all by sin oppressed ; 
To clothe them with the robes of praise. 
And give their weary spirits rest. 



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3 To help their grov'lmg unbelief; 
Beauty for ashes to confer; 

The oil of joy for abject grief ; 
Triumphant joy for sad despair. 

4 To make them trees of righteousness, — 
The planting of the Lord below; 

To spread the honour of his grace, 
And on to full perfection go. 

300 • 3d P. M. 4 6s & 2 8s. 

Thejvbilee trumpet. 

BLOW ye the trumpet, blow 
The gladly-solemn sound ; 
Let all the nations know. 
To earth's remotest bound. 
The year of jubilee is come ; 
Retm-n, ye ransom'd sinners, home. 

2 Jesus, our great High Priest, 
Hath full atonement made : 

Ye weary spirits, rest; 

Ye mom-nful souls, be glad: 
The year of jubilee is come ; 
Return, ye ransom'd sinners, home. 

3 Extol the Lamb of God, — 
The all-atoning Lamb ; 

Redemption in his blood 

Throughout the world proclaim : 
The year of jubilee is come ; 
Return, ye ransom'd sinners, home. 

4 Ye slaves of sin and hell, 
Your hberty receive. 

And safe in Jesus dwell. 
And blest in Jesus live : 
The year of jubilee is come ; 
Return, ye ransom'd sinners, home. 



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5 Ye who have sold for naught 
Your heritage above, 

Shall have it back unbought, 
The gift of Jesus' love : 
The year of jubilee is come ; 
Return, ye ransom'd sinners, home. 

6 The gospel trumpet hear, — 
The news of heavenly grace ; 

And, saved from earth, appear 
Before your Saviour's face : 
The year of jubilee is come ; 
Return, ye ransom'd sinners, home. 

301 c. M. 

The gospel feast. 

LET eveiy mortal ear attend, 
And every heart rejoice ; 
The trumpet of the gospel sounds 
With an inviting voice. 

2 Ho ! all ye hungry, starving souls, 
That feed upon the wind. 

And vainly strive with earthly toys 
To fill an empty mind: — 

3 Eternal Wisdom hath prepared 
A soul-reviving feast. 

And bids your longing appetites 
The rich provision taste. 

4 Ho ! ye that pant for living streams, 
And pine away and die. 

Here you may quench your raging thirst 
With springs- that never dry. 

6 Rivers of love and mercy here 

In a rich ocean join ; 
Salvation in abundance flows. 

Like floods of milk and wine. 



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6 The happy gates of gospel grace 

Stand open night and day: 
Lord, we are come to seek supplies. 

And drive our wants away. 

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TJie Lamb of God who taketh avmy the sins ofthb ivorld. 

SEE, sinners, in the gospel glass, 
The Friend and Saviour of mankind ; 
Not one of all the' apostate race 
But may in liim salvation find: 
His thoughts, and words, and actions, prove, — 
His life and death, — that God is love. 

2 Behold the Lamb of God, who bears 
The sins of all the world away; 

A servant's form he meekly wears, 
He sojourns in a house of clay : 
His glory is no longer seen. 
But God with God is man with men. 

3 See where the God incarnate stands. 
And calls his wandering creatures home: 

He all day long spreads out his hands ; 

Come, weary souls, to Jesus come ! 
Ye all may hide you in his breast; 
Believe, and he will give you rest. 

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The voice office grace, 

THE voice of free grace cries, — Escape to the 
mountain ; 
For Adam's lost race Christ hath open'd a foimtain : 
For sin and uncleanness, and every transgression. 
His blood flows most freely, in streams of salva- 
tion. 
Hallelujah to the Lamb, who has purchased our 

pardon : 
We will praise him again when we pass over 
Jordan. 



OF l^EE GOSPEL. 183 

2 Now glory to God in the highest is given; 
Now glory to God is re-echoed in heaven ; 
Around the whole earth let us tell the glad story. 
And sing of his love, his salvation and glory. 

Hallelujah to the Lamb, &c. 

3 Jesus, ride on, — thy kingdom is glorious; 
0*er sin, death, and hell, thou wilt make us vic- 
torious : 

Thy name shall be praised in the great congrega- 

tioU:, 
An^ saints shall ascribe unto thee their salvation. 
Hallelujah to the Lamb, (fee. 

4 When on Zion we stand, having gain'd the blest 

shore, 

With our harps in our hands, we will praise ever- 
more : 

We '11 range the blest fields on the banks of the 
river, 

And sing of redemption forever and e\'er. 
Hallelujah to the Lamb, &c. 

304 30th P. M. 11 10,11 10. 

Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal. 

COME, ye disconsolate, where'er ye languish ; 
Come to the mercy-seat, fervently kneel ; 
Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your 
anguish ; — 
Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal. 

2 Joy of the desolate, Ught of the straying, 
Hope of the penitent, fadeless and pm*e, — 

Here speaks the Comforter, tenderly saying, — 
Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot cure. 

3 Here see the bread of life ; see waters flowing 
Forth from the throne of God, pure from above ; 

Come to the feast of love ; come, ever knowing — • 
Earth has no sorrow but Heaven can remove. 



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305 c. M. 

Behold the Lamb. 

LOOK unto Christ, ye nations ; own 
Yqut God, ye fallen race ; 
Look, and be saved thrcugh faith alone, 
Be justified by grace. 

2 See all your sins on Jesus laid : 
The Lamb of God was slain; 

His soul was once an offering made 
For every soul of man. 

3 Awake from guilty natm-e's sleep. 
And Christ shall give you light ; 

Cast all your sins into the deep, 
And wash the Ethiop white. 

4 With me, youi' chief, ye then shall know, 
Shall feel, your sins forgiven; 

Anticipate your heaven below. 
And own that love is heaven. 

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Proclaiming the universal Saviour, 

LET earth and heaven agree, 
Angels and men be join'd, 
To celebrate with me 

The Saviour of mankind : 
To' adore the all-atoning Lamb, 
And bless the soimd of Jesus' name. 

2 Jesus ! transporting sound ! 

The joy of earth and heaven ; 
No other help is found, 
No other name is given. 
By which we can sah ation have ; 
But Jesus came the world to save. 



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3 Jesus ! harmonious name ! 
It charms the hosts above; 

They evermore proclaim, 
And wonder at, his love: 
'Tis all their happiness to gaze, — 
'Tis heaven to see om* Jesus' face. 

4 His name the sinner hears, 
And is from sin set free ; 

'Tis music in his ears ; 
"lis hfe and victory ; 
New songs do now his hps employ, 
And dances his glad heart for joy. 

5 unexampled love! 

all-redeeming grace ! 
How swiftly didst thou move 

To save a fallen race ! 
What shall I do to make it known, 
What thou for all mankind hast done ? 

6 for a trumpet voice. 

On all the world to call, — 
To bid their hearts rejoice 
In him who died for all : 
For all, my Lord was crucified ; 
For all, for all, my Saviom- died. 

307 ... c. M. 

The immensity of His grace. 

WHAT shaU I do my God to love ? 
My loving God to praise ? 
The length, and breadth, and height to prove, 
And depth of sov'reign grace ? 

2 Thy sov'reign grace to all extends, 

Immense and unconfined ; 
From age to age it never ends ; 

It reaches all mankind. 



186 PKOYisioisrs akd promises. 

3 Throughout the world its breadth is known, 
Wide as infinity : — 

So wide it never pass'd by one, 
Or it had pass'd by me. 

4 My trespass was grown up to heaven ; 
But, far above the skies, 

Through Christ abundantly forgiven, 
I see thy mercies rise. 

5 The depth of all-redeeming love. 
What angel tongue can tell? 

may I to the utmost prove 
The gift unspeakable ! 

308 L.M. 

Rejoicing in tJie glory of His grace, 

GLORY to God, whose sov'reign grace 
Hath animated senseless stones, — 
CalFd us to stand before his face, 
And raised us into Abraham's sons. 

2 The people that in darkness lay. 
In sin and error's deadly shade, 

Have seen a glorious gospel-day 
In Jesus' lovely face displayed. 

3 Thou only, Lord, the work hast done. 
And bared thine arm in all our sight ; 

Hast made the reprobates thine own, 
And claim'd the outcasts as thy right. 

4 Thy single arm, almighty Lord, 
To us the great salvation brought ; 

Thy Word, thy all-creating Word, 

That spake at first the world from naught. 

5 For this the saints lift up their voice. 
And ceaseless praise to thee is given ; 

For this the hosts above rejoice, 

And praise thee in the highest heaven. 



THE SINNER. 



DEPRAVITY. 

309 L- M. 

Original and actual sin, 

LORD, we are vile, conceived in sin, 
And born unholy and unclean ; 
Sprung from the man whose guilty fall 
Corrupts his race, and taints us all. 

2 Soon as we draw our infant breath 
The seeds of sin grow up for death ; 
Thy law demands a perfect heart. 
But we're defiled in every part. 

3 Behold, we fall before thy face ; 
Our only refuge is thy grace : 

No outward forms can make us clean ; 
The leprosy lies deep within. 

4 Nor bleeding bird, nor bleeding beast. 
Nor hyssop branch, nor sj)rinlding priest. 
Nor running brook, nor flood, nor sea. 
Can wash the dismal stain away. 

5 Jesus, thy blood, thy blood alone, 
Hath power sufficient to atone ; 

Thy blood can make us white as snow; 
No Jewish types could cleanse us so. 

6 While guilt disturbs and breaks our peace, 
Nor flesh nor soul hath rest or ease ; 
Lord, let us hear thy pardoning voice. 

And make these broken hearts rejoice. 

310 CM. 

JbtaUy diseased, 

VHILE dead in trespasses I he. 
Thy quick'ning Spirit give ; 
Call me, thou Son of God, that I 
May hear thy voice, and Uve. 



188 DEPRAVITY. 

2 While full of anguish and disease. 
My weak, distemper'd soul 

Thy love compassionately sees : 
O let it make me whole ! 

3 Cast out thy foes, and let them stiH 
To Jesus' name submit: 

Clothe with thy righteousness, and heax. 
And place me at thy feet. 

t To Jesus' name, if all things now 

A trembling homage pay, 
let my stubborn spirit bow, — 

My stifF-neck'd will obey. 

5 I know in thee all fulness dwells, 
And all for wi-etched man : 

Fill every want my spirit feels. 
And break off every chain. 

311 . . s. M. 

Dead in trespasses and sins. 

HOW helpless nature lies. 
Unconscious of her load ! 
The heart unchanged can never rise 
To happiness and God. 

2 Can aught but power divine 
The stubborn will subdue? 

'Tis thine, eternal Spirit, thine 
To form the heart anew : — 

3 The passions to recall. 
And upward bid them rise ; 

To make the scales of eiTor fall 
From reason's darken'd eyes. 

4 change these hearts of ours. 
And give them life divine ; 

Tlien shall our passions and our powers, 
Almighty Lord, be thine. 



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312 a. M. 

Helpless and guilty. 

AH, how shall fallen man 
Be just before his God ? 
If he contend m righteousness, 
We sink beneath his rod. 

2 If he our ways should mark 
With strict inquiring eyes, 

Could we for one of thousand faults 
A just excuse devise ? 

3 The mountains, in thy wrath. 
Then- ancient seats forsake ; 

The trembling earth deserts her place, — 
Her rooted piUars shake. 

4 Ah, how shall guilty man 
Contend with such a God? 

None — ^none can meet him, and escape. 
But through the Saviour's blood. 

313 . CM. 

Without God in the world, 

GOD is in this and every place ; 
But 0, how dark and void 
To me ! — 'tis one great wilderness. 
This earth without my God. 

2 Empty of Him who all things fills. 
Till he his light impart, — 

Till he his glorious self reveals, — 
The veil is on my heart. 

3 Thou who seest and know'st my grief, 
ThyseK unseen, unknown. 

Pity my helpless unbehef. 
And break my heart of stone. 

4 Regard me with a gracious eye ; 
The long-sought blessing give ; 

And bid me, at the point to die. 
Behold thy face and live. 



190 DEPRAvn r. 

314 C. M. 

Feding after God. 

THOU hidden God, for whom I groan, — 
Till thou thyself declare, 
God, inaccessible, unknown, — 
Regard a sinner's prayer : 

2 A sinner welt'ring in his blood, 
Unpurged and unforgiven : 

Far distant from the Uving God, 
As far as hell from heaven. 

3 An unregen'rate child of man, 
To thee for help I call ; 

Pity thy fallen creature's pain. 
And raise me from my fall. 

4 The darkness which through thee I feel, 
Thou only canst remove ; 

Thine own eternal power reveal, 
Thine everlasting love. 

5 I would not to thy foe submit ; 
I hate the tyrant's chain; 

Send forth the pris'ner from the pit, 
Nor let me cry in vain. 

6 Show me the blood that bought my peace. 
The cov'nant blood apply ; 

And all my griefs at once shall cease, 
And all my sins shall die. 

315 L. M. 

Sin^s incurable disease. 

OGOD, to whom, in flesh reveal'd. 
The helpless all for succour came ; 
The sick to be relieved and heal'd. 

And found salvation in thy name : — 
2 Thou seest me helpless and distressed. 
Feeble, and faint, and blind, and poor; 
Weary, I come to thee for rest ; 
And, sick of sin, implore a cure. 



DEPRAVITY. 191 

3 My sin's incurable disease, 

Thou, Jesus, thou alone canst heal • 

Inspire me with thy power and peace, 
And pardon on my conscience seal. 

316 L- M. 

The inbred leprosy, 

JESUS, a word, a look from thee. 
Can turn my heart, and make it clean; 
Purge out the inbred leprosy. 

And save me from my bosom sin. 

2 Lord, if thou wilt, I do believe 
Thou canst the saving grace impart; 

Thou canst this instant now forgive. 
And stamp thine image on my heart. 

3 My heart, which now to thee I raise, 

I know thou canst this moment cleanse; 
The deepest stains of sin efface. 
And drive the evil spirit hence. 

4 Be it according to thy word ; 
Accomplish now thy work in me ; 

And let my soul, to health restored, 
Devote its deathless powers to thee. 

317 c. M. 

The leper, 

JESUS, if still thou art to-day. 
As yesterday, the same, — 
Present to heal, — ^in me display 
The virtue of thy Name. 

2 Now, Lord, to whom for help I call, 
Thy miracles repeat; 

With pitying eyes behold me fall 
A leper at thy feet. 

3 Loathsome, and vile, and self-abhorr'd, 
I sink beneath my sin ; 

But, if thou wilt, a gracious word 
Of thine can make me clean. 







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318 S. M. 

Hardness ofheaH la)nented, 

THAT I could repent ! 
that I could believe ! 
Thoii, by thy voice, the marble rend, 

The rock in sunder cleave : 
Thou, by thy two-edged sword. 

My soul and spirit part; 
Strike, with the hammer of thy word. 
And break my stubborn heart. 

2 Saviour, and Prince of peace ! 

The double grace bestow; 
Unloose the bands of wickedness, 

And let the captive go : 
Grant me my sins to feel. 

And then the load remove : 
Wound, and pom^ in, my wounds to heal. 

The balm of pard'ning love. 

319 .. L. M. 

The Physician needed. 
I THOU, whom once they flock'd to hear,— 
Thy words to hear, thy power to feel,— 
Suffer a sinner to draw near. 
And graciously receive me still. 

2 They that be whole, thyself hast said, 
No need of a physician have ; 

But I am sick, and want thine aid. 
And wait thine utmost power to save. 

3 Thy power, and truth, and love divine. 
The same from age to age endure: 

A word, a gracious word of thine. 
The most inveterate plague can cure. 

4 Helpless howe'er my spirit hes. 
And long hath languished at the pool : 

A word of thine shall make it rise. 
And speak me in a moment whole. 







DEPEAVITY. 193 

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Desiiini conviction, 

FATHER of lights, from whom proceeds 
Wliate'er thy 3very creature needs; 
Whose goodness, j>rovidently nigh, 
Feeds the yomig ravens when they cry ; 
To thee I look; my heart prepare; 
Suggest, and hearlien to my prayer. 

2 Since by thy Hght myself I see 
Naked, and poor, and void of thee. 
Thine eyes must a]l my thoughts survey. 
Preventing what niy Hps would say: 
Thou seest my waits ; for help they call ; 
And, ere I speak, thou know'st them all. 

3 Fain would I kr ow, as known by thee. 
And feel the indig3nce I see; 

Fain would I all my vileness own, 
And deep beneath the burden groan; 
Abhor the pride tiiat lurks within. 
Detest and loathe myself and sin. 

4 Ah, give me. Lord, myself to feel ; 
My total misery reveal : 

Ah, give me. Lord, I still would say, 
A heart to mourn, a heart to pray : 
My business this, }ny only care, — 
My life, my every breath, be prayer. 

321 L. M. 

Christy ike good Physician, 

JESUS, thy far-6.xtended fame 
My drooping soul exults to hear; 
Thy Name, thy all-restoring Name, 
Is music in a siimer's ear. 

2 Sinners of old taou didst receive 
With comfortable words, and kind; 

Their sorrows cheer, their wants reheve. 
Heal the diseaso.d, and cure the blind. 
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194 DEPRAVITY. 

3 And art thou not the Saviour still, 
In every place and age the same? 

Hast thou forgot thy gracious skill, 
Or lost the virtue of thy name ? 

4 Faith in thy changeless name I have r 
The good, the kind Physician, thou 

Art able now our souls to save. 
Art willinof to restore them now. 

322 L. M. 

The healing power of Christ. 

THOUGH eighteen hundred years are past 
Since Christ did in the flesh appear. 
His tender mercies ever last, 

And still his healing power is here. 

2 Would he the body's health restore. 
And not regard the sin-sick soul? 

The sin-sick soul he loves much more. 
And surely he will make it whole. 

3 All my disease, my every sin. 
To thee, O Jesus, I confess : 

In pardon. Lord, my cure begin. 
And perfect it in holiness. 

4 That token of tliine utmost good. 
Now, Saviour, now, on me bestow ; 

And purge my conscience with thy blood. 
And wash my nature white as snow. 

323 , CM. 

Lord^ help my unbelief, 

HOW sad our state by nature is; 
Our sin, hoAV deep it stains ; 
And Satan binds our captive souls 

Fast m his slavish chains. 
2 But there 's a voice of sovereign gi-ace 

Sounds from the sacred word : — 
Ho! ye despairing sinners, come. 
And trust a faithful Lord. 



DEPRAVITY. 195 

3 My soul obeys the gracious call, 
And runs to this relief; 

I would believe thy promise, Lord; 

help my unbehef ! 

4 To the blest fountain of thy blood, 
Incarnate God, I fly; 

Here let me wash my guilty soul 
From crimes of deepest dye. 

5 A guilty, weak, and helpless worm. 
Into thme arms I fall ; 

Be thou my strength and righteousness, — 
My Jesus, and my all. 

324 s. M. 

The Day-star from on kigh, 

MY former hopes are fled ; 
My terror now begins : 

1 feel, alas ! that I am dead 

In trespasses and sins. 

2 Ah, whither shall I fly ? 

1 hear the thimder roar ; — 

The law proclaims destruction nigh. 
And vengeance at the door. 

3 When I review my ways, 
I dread impending doom : 

But, hark ! a friendly whisper says, — 
Flee from the wrath to come. 

4 With trembling hope, I see 
A glimmering from afar; 

A beam of day that shines for me. 
To save me from despair. 

5 Forerunner of the sun, 

It marks the pilgrim's way; 
I '11 gaa3 upon it while I run. 
And watch the rising day. 



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325 L. M. 

The struggling captive, 

LORD, with a grieved and aching heart. 
To thee I look, to thee I cry ; 
Supply my wants ; thy grace impart : 
hear an humble prisoner's sigh ! 

2 On my sad heart the burden lies ; 
No human power can ease the load ; 

My numerous sins against me rise. 
And far remove me from my God. 

3 Break, break, Lord, these tyrant chains. 
And set the struggling captive free ; 

Redeem from everlasting pains, 

And bring me safe to heaven and thee. 

326 L. M. 

Balm in Gileady and a good Physician there. 

DEEP are the wounds which sin has made ' 
Where shall the sinner find a cure ? 
In vain, alas ! is nature's aid ; 

The work exceeds her utmost power. 

2 But can no sov'reign balm be found. 
And is no kind physician nigh, 

To ease the pain, and heal the wound. 
Ere life and hope forever fly ? 

3 There is a great Physician near ; 
Look up, fainting soid, and live ; 

See, in his heavenly smiles, appear 
Such help as nature cannot give. 

4 See, in the Saviour's dying blood, 
Life, health, and bhss, abundant flow; 

And in that sacrificial flood 

A balm foi all thy grief and wo. 



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AWAKENING. 

327 CM. 

The voice that wakes the dead. 

THOU Son of God, whose flaming eyes 
Our inmost thoughts perceive, 
Accept the grateful sacrifice 
Which now to thee we give. 

2 We bow before thy gracious throne, 
And think ourselves sincere: 

But show us, Lord, is every one 
Thy real worshipper? 

3 Is here a soul that knows thee not, 
Nor feels his need of thee, — 

A stranger to the blood which bought 
His pardon on the tree? 

4 Comince him now of unbehef ; 
His desp'rate state explain; 

And fill his heart with sacred grief, 
And penitential pain. 

5 Speak, with that voice that wakes the dead, 
And bid the sleeper rise ; 

And bid his guilty conscience dread 
The death that never dies. 

328 , c. M. 

The hammer of Gods Word. 

COME, O thou all-victorious Lord, 
Thy power to us make known ; 
Strike with the hammer of thy Word, 
And break these hearts of stone. 

2 that we all might now begin 

Our foolishness to mourn ; 
And turn at once from every sin, 

And to the Saviour turn. 



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3 Give us ourselves and thee to know, 
In this our gracious day; 

Repentance unto hfe bestow, 
And take our sins away. 

4 Convince us first of unbelief, 
And freely then release ; 

Fill every soul with sacred grief, 
And then with sacred peace. 

329 L. M. 

The accepted time, 

¥HILE life prolongs its precious light, 
Mercy is found, and peace is given ; 
But soon, ah, soon, approaching night 
Shall blot out every hope of heaven. 

2 While God invites, how blest the day ! 
How sweet tlie Gospel's charming sound ! 

Come, sinners, haste, haste away. 
While yet a pardoning God is found. 

3 Soon, borne on time's most rapid wing. 
Shall death command you to the grave, — 

Before His bar your spirits bring. 
And none be found to hear or save. 

4 In that lone land of deep despair, 

No Sabbath's heavenly light shall rise, — 
No God regard your bitter prayer, 
No Saviour call you to the skies. 

5 Now God in\dtes ; how blest the day ! 
How sweet the Gospel's charming sound! 

Come, sinners, haste, haste away. 
While yet a pard'ning God is found. 

330 S. M. 

To-day tlie accented time. 
IVrOW is the' accepted time, 
1 1 Now is the day of grace ; 
Now, sinners, come without delay, 
And seek the Saviour's face. 



AWAKENING. 199 

2 Now is the' accepted time, 
The Saviour calls to-day; 

To-morrow it may be too late — 
Then why should you delay? 

3 Now is the' accepted time, 
The gospel bids you come ; 

And every promise in his word 
Declares there yet is room. 

331 s. M. 

To-day. 

ALL yesterday is gone ; 
To-morrow 's not our own ; 
O sinner, come, without delay, 
And bow before the throne. 
2 hear God's voice to-day, 

And harden not your heart ; 
To-morrow, with a frown, he may 
Pronounce the word, — Depart! 

332 c. M. 

Boast not thyself of to-morrow, 

WHY should we boast of time to come. 
Though but a single day? 
This hour may fix oui' final doom. 
Though strong, and young, and gay. 

2 The present we should now redeem ; 
This only is our own ; 

The past, alas ! is all a dream ; 
The future is unknown. 

3 0, think what vast concerns depend 
Upon a moment's space, 

When life and all its cares shall end 
In vengeance or in grace ! 

4 O for that power which melts the heart, 
And hfts the soul on high. 

Where sin, and grief, and death depart, 
And pleasures never die. 



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5 There we with ecstasy shall fall 

Before Immanuers feet; 
And hail him as oiir All in all, 

In happiness complete. 

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Jlie danger ofdday. 

HASTEN, sinner, to be wise ! 
Stay not for the hoitow's sun : 
Wisdom if you still dospise, 
Harder is it to be Tfon. 

2 Hasten, mercy to haplore ! 
Stay not for the moiTow's sun. 

Lest thy season shouli be o'er 
Ere this evening's stage be run. 

3 Hasten, sinner, to letum! 
Stay not for the morrow's sun, 

Lest thy lamp should fail to burn 
Ere salvation's work is done. 

4 Hasten, sinner, to be blest ! 
Stay not for the morrow's sun, 

Lest perdition thee arrest 
Ere the morrow is begun. 

334 c. M. 

No peace to the mcked. 

SINNERS, the voice of God regard ; 
'Tis mercy speaks to-day; 
He calls you by his sacred word 

From sin's destructive way. 
2 Like the rough sea that cannot rest 

You hve, devoid of peace ; 
A thousand stings within your breast 

Deprive your souls of ease. 
8 Your way is dark, and leads to hell : 

Why will you persevere? 
Can you in endless toiments dwell, 

Shut up in black despair? 



AWAKENING. 201 

4 Why will you in the crooked ways 
Of sin and folly go ? 

In pain you travel all your days, 
To reach eternal wo. 

5 But he that turns to God shall live, 
Through his abounding grace : 

His mercy will the guilt forgive 
Of those that seek his face. 

6 Bow to the sceptre of his word. 
Renouncing every sin; 

Submit to him, your sovereign Lord, 
And learn his w^ill divine. 

335 s. M. 

The horrors of the second death. 

WHERE shall rest be found,— 
Rest for the weary soul? 
'Twere vain the ocean's depths to sound, 
Or pierce to either pole. 

2 The world can never give 
The bhss for which we sigh ; 

'Tis not the whole of hfe to Uve, 
Nor all of death to die. 

3 Beyond this vale of tears 
There is a life above. 

Unmeasured by the flight of years ; 
And all that life is love. 

4 There is a death, whose pang 
Outlasts the fleeting breath : 

O what eternal horrors hang 
Around the second death! 

5 Thou God of truth and grace ! 
Teach us that death to shim ; 

Lest we be banish'd from thy face, 
Forever more undone. 



202 AWAKENING. 

336 L. M. 

The dead and the living, 

¥HERE are the dead ? — In heaven or hell 
Their disembodied spirits dwell; 
Their perish'd forms, in bonds of clay, 
Reserved mitil the judgment-day. 

2 Where are the living? — On the ground 
Where prayer is heard and mercy found ; 
Where, in the compass of a span, 

The mortal makes the' immortal man. 

3 Then, timely warn'd, let us begin 
To follow Christ and flee from sin ; 
Daily grow up in him our Head, 
Lord of the living and the dead. 

337 . c. M. 

Warnings from the grave, 

BENEATH our feet, and o'er our head, 
Is equal warning given; 
Beneath us lie the countless dead, — 
Above us is the heaven. 

2 Death rides on every passing breeze, 
And lurks in every flower; 

Each season has its own disease, — 
Its peril every hour. 

3 Our eyes have seen the rosy light 
Of youth's soft cheek decay, 

And fate descend in sudden night 
On manhood's middle day. 

4 Our eyes have seen the steps of age 
Halt feebly to the tomb ; 

And shall earth still our hearts engage, 
And dreams of days to come? 

5 Turn, mortal, turn ; thy danger know : 
Where'er thy foot can tread. 

The earth rings hollow from below, 
And warns thee by her dead. 



AWAKENING. 203 

6 Turn, mortal, turn; thy soul apply 

To tmths (ii\inely given : 
Tlie dead who underneath thee he, 

Shall hve for hell or heaven. 

338 c. M. 

Sin kills beyond the tomb. 

VAIN man, thy fond pursuits forbear; 
Repent, thine end is nigh ; 
Death, at the farthest, can't be far: 
think before thou die. 

2 Reflect, thou hast a soul to save; 
Thy sins, how high they moimt ! 

What are thy hopes beyond the grave ? 
How stands that dark account? 

3 Death enters, and there's no defence; 
His time there's none can tell ; 

He'll in a moment call thee hence, 
To heaven, or down to hell. 

4 Thy flesh (perhaps thy greatest care) 
Shall into dust consume ; 

But, ah ! destruction stops not there ; 
Sin kills beyond the tomb. 

339 c. M. 

Fear ofhdl. 

TERRIBLE thought ! shall I alone, 
Who may be saved, shall I, 
Of all, alas ! whom I have known. 
Through sin forever die? 

2 While all my old companions dear. 
With whom I once did hve. 

Joyful at God's right hand appear, 
A blessing to receive : — 

3 Shall I, amidst a ghastly band, 
Dragg'd to the judgment-seat, 

Far on the left with horror stand, 
My fearful doom to meet? 



204 AWAKENING. 

4 Ah ! no ; — I still may tm^n and live, 
For still his wrath delays ; 

He now vouchsafes a kind reprieve. 
And offers me his grace. 

5 I will accept his offers now — 
From every sin depart — 

Perform my oft-repeated vow, 
And render him my heart. 

6 I will improve what I receive, 
The grace through Jesus given; 

Sure, if with God on earth I live. 
To live with God in heaven. 

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What sin hath done, 

HEARTS of stone, relent, relent ! 
Break, by Jesus' cross subdued ; 
See his body mangled, rent. 

Stain' d and cover'd with his blood ! 
Sinful soul, what hast thou done ? 
Crucified the' eternal Son. 

2 Yes, thy sins have done the deed ; 
Driven the nails that fix'd him there , 

Crown'd with thorns his sacred head ; 

Plunged into his side the spear; 
Made his soul a sacrifice, 
While for sinful man he dies. 

3 Wilt thou let him bleed in vain ? 
Still to death thy Lord pursue? 

Open all his wounds again, 

And the shameful cross renew? 
No ; with all my sins I '11 part ; 
Saviour, take my broken lieart. 



INVITING. 205 



INVITING. 

^41 8tli P. M. 87,87,47. 

The invitation. 

COME, ye sinners, poor and needy. 
Weak and wounded, sick and sore ; 
Jesus ready stands to save you, 
Full of pity, love, and power : 

He is able. 
He is willing : doubt no more. 

2 Now, ye needy, come and welcome ; 
God's free bounty glorify; 

^True belief and true repentance, — 
Every grace that brings you nigh, — 

Without money. 
Come to Jesus Christ and buy. 

3 Let not conscience make you linger « 
Nor of fitness fondly dream : 

All the fitness he requireth 
Is to feel your need of him : 

This he gives you, — 
'Tis the Sphit's glimmering beam. 

4 Come, ye weary, heavy-laden. 
Bruised and mangled by the fall; 

If you tarry till you 're better. 
You will never come at all; 

Not the righteous, — 
Sinners Jesus came to call. 

5 Agonizing in the garden. 
Your Redeemer prostrate hes ; 

On the bloody tree behold him ! 
Hear him cry, before he dies, 

It is finish'd !— 
Sinners, will not this sufiice? 



206 INVITING. 

6 Lo ! the' incarnate God, ascending, 
Pleads the merit of Ms blood : 

Venture on him, — venture freely; 
Let no other trust intiTide : 

None but Jesus 
Can do helpless sinners good. 

^ Saints and angels, join'd in concert. 
Sing the praises of the Lamb ; 

While the bhssful seats of heaven 
Sweetly echo with his name : 

Hallelujah ! 
Sinners here may do the same. 

342 CM. 

He waiteth to he gracums. 

TESUS, Redeemer of mankind, 
J Display thy saving power; 
Thy mercy let the sinner find, 
And know liis gracious hour. 

2 Who thee beneath their feet have trod, 
And crucified afresh. 

Touch with thine all- victorious blood, 
And turn the stone to flesh. 

3 Open their eyes thy cross to see, — 
Their ears, to hear thy cries : 

Sinner, thy Saviom- weeps for thee; 
For thee he weeps and dies. 

4 All the day long he meekly stands. 
His rebels to receive: 

And shows his wounds, and spreads his hands, 
And bids you turn and Uve. 

6 Turn, and your sins of deepest dye 

He will with blood efikce ; 
E'en now he waits the blood to' apply ; — 

Be saved, be saved by grace. 



mVITING. 207 

343 6xn P. M. 6 lines 7s. 
Fly to Jesus, 

¥EARY souls, that wander wide 
From the central point of bliss : 
Turn to Jesus ci-ucified ; 

Fly to those dear wounds of his : 
Sink into the purple flood ; 
Rise into the life of God. 

2 Find in Christ the way of peace, 
Peace unspeakable, unknown; 

By his pain he gives you ease. 
Life by his expiring groan : 
Rise exalted by his fall ; 
Find in Christ your all in all. 

3 O beheve the record true, 

God to you his Son hath given; 
Ye may now be happy too. 

Find on earth the life of heaven : 
Live the life of heaven above. 
All the life of glorious love. 

4 This the universal bhss, 
BEss for every soul design'd; 

God's original promise this, 

God's great gift to all mankind : 
Blest in Christ this moment be. 
Blest to all eternity. 

344 1st P. M. 6 lines Ss. 
Room for the guiUy, 

GOME, my guilty brethi'en, come. 
Groaning beneath your load of sin ; 
His bleeding heart shall make you room ; 

His open side shall take you in : 
He calls you now, imites you home : 
Come, my guilty brethren, come. 



208 ESrVITING. 

2 For you the purple current flow'd, 
In pardons from Ws wounded side ; 

Languished for you the Son of God ; 
For you the Prince of glory died. 

Believe, and all your sin's forgiven: 

Only beheve, and yours is heaven. 

345 35th P. M. 87,87,77. 
The healing Fountain. 

COME to Calvary's holy mountain, 
Sinners ruin'd by the fall ; 
Here a pure and heahng fountain 

Flows for eveiy thirsty soul. 
In a full perpetual tide, 
Open'd when the Saviour died. 

2 Come, in sorrow and contrition. 
Wounded, impotent, and bhnd; 

Here the guilty, free remission, 
Here the lost, a refuge, find. 
Health, this fountain will restore ; 
He that drinks need thu*st no more. 

3 Come, ye dpng, live forever; 
"lis a soul-reviving flood; 

God is faithful ; he will never 

Break his cov'nant seal'd in blood ; 
Sign'd when our Redeemer died ; 
By the Spirit ratified. 

346 s. M. 

Seek Him wldle he may he found. 

MY son, know thou the Lord; 
Thy father's God obey; 
Seek his protecting care by night, 

His guardian hand by day. 
2 Call, while he may be foimd; 

Seek him while he is near; 
Serve him with all thy heart and mind. 
And worship him with fear. 



mv]TiNG. 209 

3 If thou wilt s( ek his face, 
His ear will h<iar thy ciy ; 

Then shalt thou ind his mercy sure, 
His grace fore/er nigh. 

4 But if thou lef.ve thy God, 
Nor choose th^ path to heaven; 

Then shalt thou Derisli in thy sins, 
And never be forgiven. 

347 . . C. M. 

He justifietl the ungodly. 

LOVERS of phasui'e more than God, 
For you he eufFer'd pain; 
For you the Savioui' spilt his blood : 
And shall he bleed in vain? 

2 Sinners, his lifo for you he paid ; 
Your basest crimes he bore; 

Your sins were a,l on Jesus laid. 
That you might sin no more. 

3 To earth the great Redeemer came, 
That you might come to heaven; 

Beheve, beheve m Jesus' name, 
And all yom^ sin's forgiven. 

4 Beheve in him who died for thee ; 
And, sm'e as ha hath died, 

Thy debt is paid, thy soul is free. 
And thou art justified. 

348 L. M. 

The gospel feast. 

COME, sinners, to the gospel feast; 
Let every sov-l be Jesus' guest: 
Ye need not one be left behind. 
For God hath bidden all mankind. 
2 Sent by my L( I'd, on you I call ; 
The invitation is to all: — 
Come all the woi Id ! come, sinner, thou ! 
A^i things in Chr st are ready now. 
li 



210 iNviTmG. 

3 Come, all ye souls by sin oppressed. 
Ye restless wand'rers after rest ; 

Ye poor, and maim'd, and halt, and blind. 
In Christ a hearty welcome find. 

4 My message as from God receive ; 
Ye all may come to Christ and live: 
let his love your hearts constrain, 
Nor suffer him to die in vain. 

5 See him set forth before your eyes. 
That precious, bleeding sacnfice: 

His offer'd benefits embrace. 

And freely now be saved by grace. 

349 . s. M. 

And yet there is room. 

YE wretched, starving poor. 
Behold a royal feast ! 
Where mercy spreads her bounteous store 
For every humble guest. 

2 See, Christ, with open arms, 
Invites, and bids you come ; 

stay not back, though fear alarms ; 
For yet there still is room. 

3 come, and with us taste 
The blessings of his love : 

While hope expects the sweet repast 
Of nobler joys above. 

4 There, with united voice. 
Before the' eternal throne. 

Ten thousand thousand souls rejoice, 
In ecstasies unknown. 

5 Ten thousand thousand more 
Are welcome still to come : 

Ye longing souls, the grace adore; 
Approach, — there yet is room. 



INVITING. 211 

350 . L- M. 

All tilings are now ready. 

SINNERS, obey the gospel word ; 
Haste to the supper of my Lord ; 
Be wise to know your gracious day ; 
All things are ready, — come away. 

2 Ready the Father is to own. 
And kiss his late-returning son ; 
Ready your loving Saviour stands, 

And spreads for you his bleeding hands. 

3 Ready the Spirit of his love, 
Just now the stony to remove ; 

To' apply and witness with the blood. 
And wash and seal the sons of God. 

4 Ready for you the angels wait, 
To triumph in your blest estate ; 
Timing their harps, they long to praise 
The wonders of redeeming grace. 

5 The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, 
Are ready, with their shining host : 
All heaven is ready to resound, — 
The dead 's ahve ! the lost is found ! 

351 6th P. M. 6 lines 7s. 

Come, and welcome. 

FROM the cross uplifted high. 
Where the Savioui' deigns to die, 
What melodious sounds we hear 
Bursting on the ravish'd ear: — 
Love's redeeming work is done — 
Come and welcome, sinner, come ! 
2 Sprinkled now with blood the throne — 
Why beneath thy bm'dens groan? 
On his pierced body laid, 
Justice owns the ransom paid ; 
Bow the knee, — embrace the Son — 
Come and welcome, sinner, come ! 



212 INVITING. 

3 Spread for thee, the festal board 
See with richest bounty stored; 
To thy Father's bosom press'd, 
Thou shalt be a child confess'd, 
Never from his house to roam ; 
Come and welcome, sinner, come ! 

352 . L. M. 

All-sufficiency of His grace. 

HO ! every one that thirsts, draw nigh : 
'Tis God invites the fallen race : 
Mercy and free salvation buy, — 

Buy wine, and milk, and gospel grace. 

2 Come to the hving waters, come ! 
Sinners, obey your Maker's call ; 

Return, ye weaiy wand'rers, home. 
And find his grace is free for all. 

3 See from the Rock a fountain rise ; 
For you in heaUng streams it rolls ; 

Money ye need not bring, nor price. 
Ye lab'ring, burden'd, sin-sick souls. 

4 Nothing ye in exchange shall give; 
Leave all you have, and are, behind; 

Frankly the gift of God receive; 
Pardon and peace in Jesus find. 

353 . . L. M. 

The joys of penitence. 

COME, ye sinners, to the Lord, 
In Christ to paradise restored : 
His proflfer'd benefits embrace, — 
The plenitude of gospel grace : — 

2 A pardon written with his blood ; 
The favom- and the peace of God ; 
The seeing eye, the feeling sense, 
T^he mystic joys of penitence : — 



INVITING. 213 

3 The godly fear, the pleasing smart, 
The meltings of a broken lieart ; 

The tears that tell yom' sins forgiven; 

The sighs that waft your souls to heaven:^ 

4 The guiltless shame, the sweet distress. 
The' unutterable tenderness ; 

The genuine, meek humihty ; 

The wonder, why such love to me : — 

5 The' overwhelming power of saving grace, 
The sight that veils the seraph's face ; 

The speechless awe that dares not move. 
And all the silent heaven of love. 

354 c. M. 

The wanderer recalled. 

■pETURN, wanderer, return, 
JA) And seek thy Father's face ; 
Those new desires which in thee bum 
Were kindled by his grace. 

2 Return, wanderer, retm^n; 
He hears thy himible sigh : 

He sees thy soften'd spuit mourn, 
When no one else is nigh. 

3 RetmTi, wanderer, retm-n; 
Thy Saviour bids thee Hve : 

Come to liis cross, and, grateful, learn 
How freely he '11 forgive. 

4 Retmn, wanderer, return, 
And wipe the falling tear: 

Thy Father calls, — ^no longer mourn ; 
'Tis love inmates thee near. 

5 Return, wanderer, return; 
Regain thy long-sought rest: 

The Sa^dour's meltmg mercies yearn 
To clasp thee to his breast. 



214 INVITING. 

355 1th p. M. 8 lines Is. 
Why will ye die 9 

SINNERS, turn ; why wUl ye die ? 
Godi yoiu' Maker, asks you why ? 
God, who did your bemg give, 
Made you with himself to live ; 
He the fatal cause demands ; 
Asks the work of his own hands, — 
Why, ye thankless creatures, why 
Will ye cross his love, and die? 

2 Sinners, turn ; why will ye die ? 
God, your Saviour, asks you why? 
He, who did your souls retrieve. 
Died himself, that ye might live. 
Will ye let him die in vain? 
Crucify your Lord again? 

Why, ye ransom'd sinners, why 
Will ye slight liis grace, and die? 

3 Sinners, iwrn.; why will ye die? 
God, the Spnit, asks you why?- 
He, who all your hves hath strove. 
Urged you to embrace his love. 
Will ye not his grace receive? 
Will ye still refuse to live? 

ye dying sinners, why. 
Why will ye forever die ? 

356 '^thP. M. S lines Is. 
Tender expostulation. 

SINNERS, turn, while God is near ; 
Dare not think him insincere : 
Now, e'en now, your Saviour stands ; 
All day long he spreads his hands ; 
Cries, — Ye will not happy be ; 
No, ye will not come to me, — 
Me, who life to none deny : 
Wliy will ye resolve to die ? 



mviTiNa. 215 

2 Turn, he cries, ye sinners, turn : 
By his life, your God hath sworn* 
He would have you turn and live; 
He would all the world receive. 

If your death were his delight, 
Would he you to life invite? 
Would he ask, beseech, and cry, — 
Why will ye resolve to die? 

3 What could your Redeemer do. 
More than he hath done for you? 
To procure your peace with God, 
Coidd he more than shed his blood ? 
After all his flow of love, — 

All his drawings from above, — 
Why will ye your Lord deny? 
Why will ye resolve to die ? 

357 c. M. 

Believe^ and he at peace, 

OWHY should gloomy thoughts arise. 
And darkness fill the mind ? 
Why should that bosom heave with sighs* 
And yet no refuge find? 

2 Hast thou not heard of Gilead's balm, — 
The great Physician there, 

Who can thine every fear disarm. 
And save thee from despair? 

3 Still art thou overwhelm'd with grief, 
And fiird with sore dismay? 

Still looking downward for relief. 
Without one cheering ray? 

4 Lift up thy streaming eyes to heaven; 
The great atonement see ; 

And all thy sins shall be forgiven: — 
BeUeve, and thou art free. 



216 INVITING. 

5 For thee the Saviour suffered shame. 
And shed his previous blood : 

Beheve, beheve in Jtsus' name. 
And be at peace with God. 

358 S. M. 

Accepting the invitation, 

COME, weaiy sinners, come. 
Groaning beneatl i your load ; 
The Saviour calls his wand'rers home; 
Haste to your parPning God. 

2 Come, all by guilt oppressed, 
Answer the Savioi^'s call — 

come, and I will ^jve you rest. 
And I will save y3u all. 

3 Redeemer, full of love, 
We would thy word obey. 

And all thy faithful mercies prove : 
take our guilt away. 

4 We would on thee rely; 

On thee would cai t our care ; 
Now to thine arms cf mercy fly. 
And find salvation there. 

359 . c. M. 

The reso ution. 

COME, humble sinier, in whose breast 
A thousand thoights revolve. 
Come, with yom' guilt and fear oppressed, 
And make this la^t resolve: — 

2 I '11 go to Jesus, t hough my sin 
Like mountains roand me close : 

1 know his courts, I 'U enter in. 
Whatever may oppose. 

3 Prostrate I'll lie before his tnrone, 
And there my gu'lt confess; 

I '11 tell liim, I 'm a vo-etch undone 
Without his sov'rt ign grace. 



PENITEJ^'IAL. 217 

4 Perhaps lie will admit my plea, 
Perhaps will hear my prayer; 

But, if I perish, I will pray, 
And perish only there. 

5 I can but perish if I go — 
I am resolved to try; 

For if I stay away, I know 
I must forever die. 



PENI TENTIAL. 

360 s. M. 

To wlwm should we go ? 

AH ! whither should I go, 
Burden'd, and sick, and faint? 
To whom should I my trouble show, 

And pour out my complaint? 
My Saviour bids me come ; 

Ah ! why do I delay ? 
He calls the weary sinner home. 
And yet from him I stay. 

2 What is it keeps me back. 
From which I cannot part, — 

Which will not let the Saviour take 

Possession of my heart? 
Searcher of hearts, in mine 

Thy trying power display ; 
Into its darkest comers shine. 

And take the veil away. 

3 I now believe, in thee, 
Compassion reigns alone ; 

According to my faith, to me 

let it. Lord, be done ! 
In me is all the bar. 

Which thou wouldst fain remove: 
Remove it, and I shall declare 

That God is only love. 



218 PENITENTIAL. 

361 L. M. 

T^lie sinner^s only hope. 

¥ HEREWITH, Lord, shall I draw near, 
And bow myself before thy face ? 
How in thy purer eyes appear? 

What shall I bring to gain thy grace? 

2 Will gifts dehght the Lord Most High? 
Will multiplied oblations please? 

Thousands of rams his favour buy, 
Or slaughter'd hecatombs appease ? 

3 Can these avert the wTath of God? 
Can these wash out my guilty stain? 

Rivers of oil, and seas of blood, 
Alas ! they all must flow in vain. 

4 Who would himself to thee approve. 
Must take the path thyself hast show'd ; 

Justice pursue, and mercy love, 

And humbly walk by faith with God. 

5 But though my life henceforth be thine. 
Present for past can ne'er atone : 

Though I to thee the wliole resign, 
I only give thee back thine own. 

6 Guilty I stand before thy face ; 
On me I feel thy wrath abide ; 

'Tis just the sentence should take place ; 
'Tis just, — but 0, thy Son hath died ! 

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Tlie Bock that is higher tJian I. 

ENCOMPASS'D mth clouds of distress. 
And ready all hope to resign, 

1 long for thy light and thy grace ; 

God, wUl they never be mine ? 

2 K sometimes I strive, as I mourn, 
My hold of thy promise to keep, 

The billows more fiercely return. 
And plunge me again in the deep. 



PENITENTIAL. 219 

3 Appear, and my sorrow shall cease ; 
The blood of atonement apply ; 

And lead me to Jesus for peace, — 
The Eock that is higher than I. 

4 enter this desolate heart, — 

Then rule o'er the heart thou hast won; 
Nor again in thine anger depart, 
But make it forever thy throne. 

363 . . c. M. 

Timdy penitence, 

VHEN rising from the bed of death, 
O'erwhelm'd with guilt and fear, 

1 view my Maker face to face, — 

O how shall I appear? 

2 If yet, while pardon may be found,' 
And mercy may be sought. 

My soul with inward horror shrinks. 
And trembles at the thouorht : — 

o 

3 When thou, Lord, shalt stand disclosed 
In majesty severe. 

And sit in judgment on my soul, — 
how shall I appear? 

4 may my broken, contrite heart, 
Timely my sins lament ; 

And early, with repentant tears. 
Eternal wo prevent. 

5 Behold the sorrows of my heart, 
Ere yet it be too late ; 

And hear my Saviom'^s dying groan. 
To give those sorrows weight. 

6 For never shall my soul despair 
Her pardon to secure, 

Who knows thine only Son hath died 
To make that pardon sm-e. 



220 PENITENTIAL. 

364 L. M. 

Only hy faith. 

LORD, I despair myself to heal ; 
I see my sin, but cannot feel ; 

1 cannot, till thy Spirit blow. 
And bid the' obedient waters flow. 

2 Tis thine a heart of flesh to give ; 
Thy gifts I only can receive; 
Here, then, to thee I all resign; 

To draw, redeem, and seal, — are thine 

3 With simple faith, on thee I call, — 
My hght, my life, my Lord, my all : 

I wait the moving of the pool ; 

1 wait the word that speaks me whole. 

4 Speak, gracious Lord, — my sickness cure- 
Make my infected nature pure : 

Peace, righteousness, and joy impart, 
And pour thyself into my heart ! 

365 ... L. M. 

Hdpless, in sin and misery. 

¥HOM man forsakes thou Avilt not leave. 
Ready the outcasts to receive: 
Though all my simpleness I own. 
And all my faults to thee are known 

2 Ah! wherefore did I ever doubt? 
Thou wilt in nowise cast me out, — 
A helpless soul, that comes to thee 
With only sin and misery. 

3 Lord, I am sick, — ^my sickness cure: 
I want, — do thou enrich the poor: 
Under thy mighty hand I stoop, 

lift the abject sinner up. 

4 Lord, I am blind, — be thou my sight : 
Lord, I am weak, — be thou my might: 
A helper of the helpless be. 

And let me find my ail in thee. 



PENITENTIAL. 221 

366 . . LM. 

Importunate supplication. 

GOD of my life, what just return 
Can sinful dust and ashes give i 

1 only live my sin to mourn: 
To love my God I only live. 

2 To thee, benign and saving Power, 
I consecrate my lengthen' d days; 

AVhile, mark'd ^\dth blessings, every hour 
Shall speak thy co-extended praise. 

3 Be all my added life employed 
Thine image in my soul to see : 

Fill ^vith thyself the mighty void ; 

Enlarge my heai-t to compass thee. 
4- The blessing of thy love bestow ; 

For this my cries shall never fail ; 
Wrestling, I will not let thee go, — 

I will not, till my suit prevail. 

5 Come, then, my Hope, my Life, my Lord, 
And fix in me thy lasting home ; 

Be mindful of thy gracious word — 

Thou, with thy promised Father, come. 

6 Prepare, and then possess my heart : 
take me, seize me from above ; 

Thee may I love, for God thou art ; 
Thee may I feel ; for God is love ! 

367 9th P.M. 87,87. 

The true Light. 

LIGHT of those whose dreary dwelling 
Borders on the shades of death, 
Come, and, by thyself revealing. 
Dissipate the clouds beneath. 
2 Thou, new heaven and earth's Creator, 

In our deepest darkness rise ; 
Scattering all the night of nature, — 
Pouring day upon om* eyes. 



222 PEOTTENTIAL. 

8 Still we wait for tliine appearing; 

Life and joy thy beams impart, 
Chasing all our fears, and cheering 

Every poor, benighted heart. 

4 Come, extend thy wonted favour 
To our ruin'd, guilty race ; 

Come, thou blest, exalted Saviour; 
Come, apply thy saving grace. 

5 By thine all-atoning merit. 
Every burdened soul release; 

By the teachings of thy Spirit, 
Guide us into perfect peace. 

368 . c. M. 

/ would he thine, 
T WOULD be thine ; take my heart, 
J_ And fill it with thy love ; 
Thy sacred image. Lord, impart. 
And seal it from above. 

2 I would be thine ; but while I strive 
To give myself away, 

I feel rebelhon still alive, 
And wander wliile I pray. 

3 I would be thine ; but. Lord, I feel 
Evil still Im'ks within : — 

Do thou thy .majesty reveal, 
And overcome my sin. 

4 I would be thine ; I would embrace 
The Saviour, and adore ; 

Inspire with faith, mfuse thy grace. 
And now my soul restore. 

369 . L. M. 

Shut up in unbelief, 

LIGHT of the Gentile world, appear ; 
Command the blind thy rays to see* 
Our darkness chase, our sorrows cheer. 
And set the plaintive pris'ner free. 



PENITENTIAL. 223 

2 Me, me, who still in darkness sit. 
Shut up in sin and unbeliet. 

Deliver from this gloomy pit, — 
This dungeon of despairing grief. 

3 Open mine eyes the Lamb to know. 
Who bears the gen'ral sin away ; 

And to my ransom'd spirit show 
The glories of eternal day. 

370 4th P. M. 886,886. 

Tlie Man on Calvary, 

OTHOU who hast our sorrows borne. 
Help us to look on thee, and mourn. 
On thee, whom we have slain : — 
Have pierced a thousand, thousand times, 
And by reiterated crimes 
E-enew'd thy sacred pain. 

2 give us eyes of faith to see 
The Man transfixed on Calvary, — 

To know thee who thou art; 
The One Eternal God and True ; 
And let the sight affect, subdue. 

And break my stubborn heart. 

3 Lover of souls, — ^to rescue mine. 
Reveal the charity di^iae, 

That suffered in my stead : — 
That made thy soul a sacrifice. 
And quench'd m death those flaming eyes, 

Ajid bow'd that sacred head. 

4 The veil of unbehef remove ; 
And by thy manifested love. 

And by thy sprinkled blood, 
L)estroy the love of sin in me. 
And get thyself the victory. 

And brinor me back to God. 



224 PENITENTIAL. 

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The veil of unbelief. 

OTHOU, whom fain my soul would love, 
Whom only I deshe to know : 
This veil of unbelief remove. 

And show me all thy goodness, show; 
Jesus, thyself in me reveal; 
Tell me thy name, thy nature tell. 

2 Hast thou been with me, Lord, so long, 
Yet thee, my Lord, have I not known? 

1 claim thee with a falt'ring tongue; 
I pray thee, in a feeble groan, 

Tell me, O tell me, who thou art, 
And speak thy name into my heart. 

3 If now thou talkest by the way 
With me, the abject sinner, me, 

The mystery of grace display ; 

Open mine eyes that I may see : 
That I may understand tliy word, 
And now cry out, — It is the Lord ! 

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The gift of faith. 

AUTHOR of faith, to thee I cry,— 
To thee, who wouldst not have me die. 
But know the truth and hve : 
Open mine eyes to see thy face ; 
Work in my heart the sa\ing grace; 
The life eternal give. 

2 Shut up in unbelief, I groan. 
And blindly serve a God unknown, 

Till thou the veil remove ; 
The gift imspeakable imparfc, 
And wiile thy Name upon my heart. 

And manifest thy love. 



PEMT^^NTIAL. 225 

S I know the work is only thine; 
The gift of faith is all divine ; 

But, if on thee we call, 
Thou wilt that gracious gift bestow. 
And cause our hearts to feel and know 

That thou hast died for all. 

4 Thou bidd'st us knock and enter in, — 
Come unto thee, and rest from sin, — 

The blessing seek and find: 
Thou bidd'st us ask thy grace, and have ; 
Thou canst, thou wouldst, this moment save 

Both me and all mankind. 

5 Be it accorduig to thy word ; 
Now let me find my pard'ning Lord ; 

Let what I ask be given : 
The bar of unbehef remove ; 
Open the door of faith and love, 

And let me into heaven. 

373 S. M. 

The heart of stone. 

OTHAT I could repent, 
With all my idols part, 
And to thy gracious eye present 
An humble, contrite heart ; 

2 A heart with grief oppressed. 
For having grieved my God ; 

A troubled heart, that cannot rest 
Till sprinkled with thy blood. 

3 Jesus, on me bestow 
The penitent desire; 

With true sincerity of wo 
My aching breast inspire. 

4 With soft'ning pity look. 
And melt my hardness down: 

Strike with thy love's resistless stroke, 
And break this lieart of stone. 



226 PENITENTIAL. 

374 L. M. 

The stubborn heart. 

OF OR a glance of heavenly day, 
To take this stubborn heart away; 
And thaw, with beams of love divine, 
This heart, this frozen heart of mine. 

2 The rocks can rend ; the earth can quake 
The seas can roar ; the mountains shake : 
Of feeling, all things show some sign. 

But this unfeeling heart of mine. 

3 To hear the sorrows thou hast felt, 
O Lord, an adamant would melt : 
But I can read each moving line. 
And nothing moves this heart of mine. 

4 Thy judgments too, which devils fear — 
Amazing thought ! — ^unmoved I hear ; 
Goodness and ^vrath in vam combine 

To stir this stupid heart of mine. 

5 But power divine can do the deed ; 
And, Lord, that power I greatly need: 
Thy Spirit can from dross refine. 

And melt and change this heart of mine. 

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Faith implored, 

FATHER of Jesus Christ, the Just, 
My Friend and Advocate with thee, 
Pity a soul that fain would trust 

In him who hved and died for me : 
But only thou canst make him known, 
And in my heart reveal thy Son. 
2 If, drawn by thine alluring grace. 

My want of living faith I feel ; 
Show me in Christ thy smiling face, — 

What flesh and blood can ne'er reveal : 
Thy co-eternal Son djsplay. 
And speak my darkness into day. 



PENITENTIAL. 

3 The gift unspeakable impart : 

Command the light of faith to shine — 

To shine in my dark, drooping heart — 
And fill me with the life divine : 

Now bid the new creation be ; 

God, let there be faith in me ! 

376 . c. M. 

To God all things are possible. 

OTHAT thou wouldst the heavens rend, 
In majesty come down, — 
Stretch out thine arm omnipotent. 
And seize me for tliine own. 

2 Descend, and let thy hghtnings bum 
The stubble of thy foe ; 

My sins o'ertmn, o'ertum, o'erturn. 
And make the mountains flow. 

3 Thou my impetuous spirit guide. 
And curb my headstrong yrill ; 

Thou only canst drive back the tide. 
And bid the sim stand still. 

4 What though I cannot break my chain, 
Or e'er throw off my load ; 

The things impossible to men. 
Are possible to God. 

377 . c. M. 

Continued. — Urgent pleadings. 

IS there a thing too hard for thee. 
Almighty Lord of all ; 
Whose threatening looks dry up the sea. 
And make the mountains fall? 

2 Who, who shall in thy presence stand. 

And match Omnipotence? 
Ungrasp the hold of thy right hand, 

Or pluck the sinner thence ? 



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228 PENITENTIAL. 

3 Sworn to destroy, let earth assail; 
Nearer to save thou art; 

Stronger than all the powers of hell, 
And greater than my heart. 

4 Lo ! to the liills I hft mine eye ; 
Thy promised aid I claim: 

Father of mercies, glorify 
Thy favom'ite Jesus' name. 

5 Salvation in that name is found, 
Balm of my grief and care ; 

A medicine for every wound, — 
All, all I want is there. 

378 S. M. 

The Redeemer's tears. 

DID Christ o'er sinners weep. 
And shall our cheeks be dry ? 
Let floods of penitential grief 
Burst forth from every eye. 

2 The Son of God in tears 
The wond'ring angels see ; 

Be thou astonish'd, my soul ; 
He shed those tears for thee. 

3 He wept that we might weep ; 
Each sin demands a tear : 

In heaven alone no sin is found, 
And there 's no weeping there. 

379 12th P. M. '76, 'Ze, 78, 76, 

numility and contrition. 

JESUS, let thy pitying eye 
Call back a wand 'ring sheep ; 
False to thee, like Peter, I 

Would fain like Peter weep. 
Let me be by grace restored ; 

On me be all long-sufi''ring sho^vn ; 
Turn, and look upon me, Lord, 
And break my heart of stone. 



PENITENTIAL. 229 

2 Savioui', Prince, enthroned above, 
Repentance to impart. 

Give me, through thy djmg love, 

The humble, contrite heart: 
Give what I have long implored, 

A portion of thy grief unknown : 
Tm-n, and look upon me, Lord, 

And break my heart of stone. 

3 For thine own compassion's sake, 
The gracious wonder show ; 

Cast my sins behind thy back, 
And wash me white as snow: 

If thy bowels now are stirr'd, 
If now I do myself bemoan, 

Turn, and look upon me, Lord, 
And break my heart of stone. 

380 12th P. M. 76, T6, 78, 70. 

Continued. — The heart broken, 

SAVIOUR, see me from above, 
Nor suffer me to die ; 
Life, and happiness, and love, 

Drop from thy gracious eye : 
Speak the reconciling word. 

And let thy mercy melt me down; 
Turn, and look upon me, Lord, 
And break my heart of stone. 

2 Look, as when thine eye pursued 

Tlie first apostate man, — 
Saw him welt'ring m his blood, 

And bade him rise again: 
Speak my paradise restored ; 

Redeem me by thy grace alone: 
Turn, and look upon me. Lord, 

And break my heart of stone. 



230 PENITENTIAL. 

3 Look, as when thy languid eye 

Was closed that we might Uve ; 
Father, (at the point to die 

My Saviour pray'd,) forgive ! 
Surely with that dying word 

He turns, and looks, and cries, — 'Tis done ! 
0, my bleeding, loving Lord, 

Thou break'st my heart of stone. 

381 ... c. M, 

Determined importunity, 

BECAUSE for me the Saviour prays. 
And pleads his death for me, 
God hath vouchsafed a longer space. 
And spared the barren tree. 

2 Time to repent thou dost bestow; 
Now, Lord, the power impart. 

And let mine eyes with tears o'erflow. 
And break my stubborn lieart. 

3 I now from all my sins would turn. 
To my atoning God ; 

And look on him I pierced, and mourn. 
And feel the sprinkled blood : — 

4 Would nail my passions to the cross. 
Where my Redeemer died ; 

And all thmgs else account but loss 
For Jesus crucified. 

5 Giver of penitential pain, 
Before thy cross I he; 

In grief determined to remain 
fin thou thy blood apply. 

6 Forgiveness on my conscience seal ; 
Bestow thy promised rest ; 

With purest love thy servant fill, 
And number with the blest. 



PENITENTIAL. 231 

382 S. M. 
Hardness of heart lamented. 

OTHAT I could revere 
My much offended God ; 
O that I could but stand in fear 
Of thy afficting rod ! 

2 If mercy cannot draw, 

Thou by thy threat'nings move ; 
And keep an abject soul in awe, 
That will not yield to love. 

3 Let me with hoiTor fly 
From every sinful snare ; 

Nor longer, in my Judge's eye. 
My Judge's anger dare. 

4 Thou great, tremendous God, 
The conscious awe impart; 

The grace be now on me bestow d, — 
The tender, fleshly heart. 

5 For Jesus' sake alone. 
The stony heart remove ; 

And melt at last, melt me down. 
Into the mould of love. 

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The PvblicarCs prayer. 

SAVIOUR, Prince of Israel's race. 
Save me ; — from thy lofty throne 
Give the sweet relenting grace; 

Soften this obdurate stone; — 
Stone to flesh, God, convert ; 
Cast a look, and break my heart ! 
2 By thy Spuit, Lord, reprove; 

Ail mine inmost sins reveal; 
Sins against thy Ught and love. 

Let me see, and let me feel ; 
Sins that crucified my Lord, — 
Spilt again thy precious blood. 



^2 PENITENTIAL. 

3 Jesas, seek thy wandering sheep; 
Make me restless to return ; 

Bid me look on thee, and weep, 

Bitterly as Peter mourn : 
Till I say, by grace restored, — 
Now, thou know'st, I love thee. Lord. 

4 Might I in thy sight appear 
As the publican distressed ; 

Stand, not daring to draw near; 

Smite on my unworthy breast; 
Groan the sinner's only plea, — 
God be merciful to me ! 

5 remember me for good : 
Passing through the mortal vale. 

Show me the atoning blood : 

When my strength and spirits fail, 
Give my fainting soal to see 
Jesus cmcified for me. 

384 c. M. 

Godly sorrow. 

OF OR that tenderness of heart 
Which bows before the Lord, 
Acknowledgmg how just thou art. 

And trembhng at thy word ; 
for those humble, contrite tears. 

Which from repentance flow; 
That consciousness of guilt, which fears 
The long-suspended blow. 

2 Saviour, to me, in pity, give 

The sensible distpess; 
The pledge thou wilt at last receive, 

And bid me die in peace : 
Wilt from the dreadfid day remove, 

Before the evil come; 
My spirit hide with saints above, — 

My body, in the tomb. 



PEOTTENTIAL. 233 

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Languishing for deliverance. 

CONQUER this rebelHous wiU ! 
Willing thou art, and ready still ; 
Thy help is always nigh : 
The hardness from my heart removt. 
And give me, Lord, give me love. 
Or at thy feet I die. 

2 To thee I lift my mournful eye : 
Wliy am I thus ? tell me why 

I cannot love my God. 
The hindrance must be all in me : 
It cannot in my Saviour be ; — 

Witness that streaming blood. 

3 It cost thy blood my heart to win. 
To buy me from the power of sin. 

And make me love again : 
Come, then, my Lord, thy right assert ; 
Take to thyself my ransom'd heart. 

Nor bleed nor die in vain. 

386 . L- M. 

Deprecating eternal death. 

FATHER, if I may caU thee so. 
Regard my fearful heart's desire : 
Remove this load of guilty wo, 
Nor let me in my sins expire. 

2 I tremble, lest the ^vl'ath divine. 
Which biiiises now my wretched soul. 

Should bruise this wretched soul of mine 
Long as eternal ages roll. 

3 I deprecate that death alone, — 
That endless banishment from thee ; 

save, and give me to thy Son, 

Who suffered, wept, and bled for me. 



234 PENITENTIAL. 

387 lltli P. M. 76,76,77,76. 

Self-abasement. 

GRACIOUS God, my sins forghe , 
Thy Spirit now impart ; 
Then shall I in thee believe 
With all my loving heart: 
Always unto Jesus look, — - 

Him in heavenly gloiy see. 
Who to save me undertook, 
And ever prays for me. 

2 Grace, in answer to his prayer, 
Fulness of grace bestow ; 

That I may with zealous care --^ 

Perform thy will below; 
Rooted in humility, 

Still in eveiy state resigned, — 
Plant, Almighty Lord, in me 

A meek and lowly mind. 

3 Poor and \ale in my own eyes, 
With self-abasing shame 

Still I would myself despise. 

And magnify thy name. 
Thee let every creature bless ; 

Praise alone to God be giveu; 
God alone deserves the praise 

Of all in earth and heaven. 

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The only Eefuge, 

TESTIS, lover of my soul, 
J Let me to thy bosom fly, 
While the nearer waters roll, 

While the tempest still is high ; 
Hide me, my Saviour, hide, 

Till the storm of life is past ; 
Safe into the haven guide, 

receive my soul at last. 



PENITENTIAL. 235 

2 Other refuge have I none ; 
Hangs my helpless soul on thee ' 

Leave, leave me not alone ; 

Still support and comfort me : 
All my trust on thee is stay'd ; 

All my help from thee I biing; 
Cover my defenceless head 

With the shadow of thy wing. 

3 Thou, Christ, art all I want : 
More than all in thee I find : 

Raise the fallen, cheer the faint, 
Heal the sick, and lead the blind. 

Just and holy is thy name; 
I am all umighteonsness ; 

False, and full of sin I am; 

Thou art full of truth and grace. 

4 Plenteous grace with thee is found, — 
Grace to cover all my sin : 

Let the heahng streams abound; 

Make. and keep me pure within. 
Thou of life the fountain art ; 

Freely kt me take of thee : 
Spring thou up within my heart; 

Rise to all eternity. 

389 L. M. 

Seeking deliverance and rest, 

AWAKED from sin's delusive sleep. 
My heavy guilt I feel, and weep : 
Beneath a weight of woes oppressed* 

1 come to thee, my Lord, for rest. 

2 Now, from thy throne of grace above, 
Look down upon my soul in love ; — 
That smile shall sweeten all my pain, 
And make my soul rejoice again. 



236 PENITJ5NTIAL. 

3 By thy divine, transforming power, 
My ruin'd nature now restore ; 
And let my life and temper shine, 
In blest resemblance. Lord, to thine. 

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The mourner blessed. 

JESUS, if still the same thou art, 
If all thy promises are sm-e. 
Set up thy kingdom in my heart. 

And make me rich, for I am poor: 
To me be all thy treasm-es given, — 
The kingdom of an inward heaven. 

2 Thou hast pronounced the mom-ner blest, 
And lo ! for thee I ever mourn ; 

I cannot, no, I will not rest. 

Till thou, my only rest, return ; 
Till thou, the Prince of peace, appear, 
And I receive the Comforter. 

3 Where is the blessedness bestow'd 
On all that hunger after thee ? 

1 himger now, I thirst for .God ; 

See the poor fainting sinner, see ; 
And satisfy with endless peace. 
And fill me with thy righteousness. 

391 . c. M. 

Pleading the promises, 

MERCY alone can meet my case ; 
For mercy. Lord, I ciy: 
J^sus, Redeemer, show thy face 
In mercy, or I die : — 

2 I perish, and my doom were just ; 
But wilt thou leave me ? — No : 

I hold thee fast, my hope, my trust; 
I will not let thee go. 



PENITENTIAL. 237 

3 Still sui-e to me thy promise stands, 
And ever must abide : 

Behold it written on thy hands, 
And graven in thy side. 

4 To this, this only will I cleave ; 
Thy word is all my plea; 

That word is truth, and I beheve : — 
Have mercy. Lord, on me. 

392 c. M. 

Prisoner of hope. 

LET the redeemed give thanks and praise 
To a forgiving God ; 
My feeble voice I cannot raise. 
Till wash'd in Jesus' blood : — 

2 Till, at thy coming from above, 
My mountain sin depart. 

And fear give place to filial love. 
And peace overflow my heart. 

3 Prisoner of hope, I still attend 
The' appearance of my Lord, 

These endless doubts and fears to end. 
And speak my soul restored : — 

4 Restored by reconciling grace ; 
With present pardon blest; 

And fitted by true holiness 
For my eternal rest. 

6 The peace which man can ne'er conceive, 

The love and joy unknown, 
Now, Father, to thy servant give, 

And claim me for thine own. 

6 My God, in Jesus pacified. 

My God, thyself declare ; 
And draw me to his open side. 

And plmige the sinner there. 



238 PEmTENTlAL. 

393 s. M. 

Deprecating th6 wrath to come, 

OTHOU that wouldst not have 
One wretched sinner die; 
Who diedst thyself, my sonl to save 

From endless misery : — 
Show me the way to shim 

Thy dreadful wrath severe ; 
That when thou comest on thy throne, 
I may with joy appear. 

2 Thou art thyself the Way ; 

Thyself in me reveal ; 
So shall I spend my life's short day, 

Obedient to thy will : 
So shall I love my God, 

Because he first loved me ; 
And praise thee in thy bright abode. 

To all eternity. 

394 . c. M. 

The Sun of righteousness. 

OSUN of righteousness, arise 
With healing in thy wing ; 
To my diseased, my fainting soul. 
Life and salvation bring. 

2 These clouds of pride and sin dispel. 
By thy all-piercing beam : 

Lighten mine eyes with faith ; my heart 
With holy hope inflame. 

3 My mind, by thy all-quick'ning power. 
From low desires set free ; 

Unite my scattered thoughts, and fix 
My love entire on thee. 

4 Father, thy long-lost son receive ; 
Saviour, thy purchase own; 

Blest Comforter, with peace and joy 
Thy new-made creature crown. 



PENITENTIAL. 239 

5 Eternal, undivided Lord, 

Co-equal One in Three, — 
On thee all faith, all hope be placed ; 

All love be paid to thee. 

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Hdp, or I perish, 

BY thy birth, and by thy tears ; 
By thy human griefs and fears ; 
By thy conflict in the hour 
Of the subtle tempter's power, — 
Saviour, look with pitying eye; 
Saviour, help me, or I die. 
2 By the tenderness that wept 
O'er the grave where Laz'rus slept ; 
By the bitter tears that flow'd 
Over Salem's lost abode, — 
Saviour, look with pitying eye ; 
Saviour, help me, or I die. 
^ 3 By thy lonely hour of prayer ; 
By the fearful conflict there ; 
By thy cross and dymg cries; 
By thy one great sacrifice, — 
Saviour, look with pitying eye ; 
Saviour, help me, or I die. 
4 By thy triumph o'er the grave ; 
By thy power the lost to save ; 
By thy high, majestic throne ; 
By the empire all thine own, — 
Saviour, look with pitying eye ; 
Saviour, help me, or I die. 

396 . c. M. 

Humble and earnest entreaties, 

HEAR, gracious God, my humble prayer; 
To thee I breathe my sighs; 
When will the cheering morn appear ? 
And when my joys arise ? 



240 PENITENTIAL. 

2 My God ! could I make the claim — 
My Father, and my Friend ; 

And call thee mine, by every name 
On which thy saints depend; — 

3 By every name of power and love, 
I would thy grace entreat; 

Nor should my humble hopes remove, 
Nor leave thy mercy-seat. 

4 Yet, though my soul in darkness mourns, 
Thy word is all my stay ; 

Here would I rest till light returns : 
Thy presence makes my day. 

5 Speak, Lord, and bid celestial peace 
Relieve my aching heart ; 

make my heavy sorrows cease, 
And all the gloom depart. 

6 Then shall my drooping spuit rise. 
And bless thy healing rays ; 

And change these deep, complaining sighs, 
For songs of sacred praise. 

397 . s. M. 

Humble confession. 

IN sorrow I lament, 
Before thy feet, my God, 
My passion, pride, and discontent, — 
My vile ingratitude. 

2 Ne'er was a heart more base 
And false than mine has been ; 

Moia faithless to its promises, — 
More prone to every sin. 

3 How long, Lord, shall I feel 
These struggles in my breast? 

When wilt thou bow my stubborn wiU, 
And give my conscience i^st? 



PENITENTIAL. 241 

4 Break thou, O break the charm, 

And set the captive free : 
Reveal, great God, thy mighty arm, 

And haste to rescue me. 

398 .L- M. 

Condemned, but pleading the promises, 

SHOW pity, Lord, Lord, forgive; 
Let a repenting rebel live. 
Are not thy mercies large and free ? 
May not a sinner trust in thee? 

2 My crimes are great, but don't sm^pass 
The power and glory of thy grace ; 
Great God, thy natm-e hath no bound, — 
So let thy pardoning love be foimd. 

3 wash my soul from every sin, 
And make my guilty conscience clean ; 
Here on my heart the burden hes. 
And past offences pain my eyes. 

4 My hps with sharae my sins confess. 
Against thy law, against thy grace ; 
Lord, should thy judgments grow severe, 
I am condemned, but thou art clear. 

5 Should sudden vengeance seize my breath, 
I must pronounce thee just, in death ; 

And if my soul were sent to hell. 
Thy righteous law approves it well. 

6 Yet save a trembling sinner. Lord, 
Whose hope, still hov'ring round thy word, 
Would Ught on some sweet promise there, — 
Some sure support against despair. 

399 c. M. 

Self loathed ; Christ exalted. 

COULD I lose myself m thee, 
Thy depth of mercy prove, — 
Thou vast, imfathomable sea 
Of unexhausted lov^, 
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242 PENITENTIAL. 

2 My humbled soul, when thou art near. 
In dust and ashes hes : 

How shall a sinful wonn appear. 
Or meet thy purer eyes ? 

3 I loathe myself when God I see, 
And into nothing fall ; 

Content if thou exalted be, 
And Christ be all in all. 

400 s. M. 

The only expiation, 

PROSTRATE at Jesus' feet, 
A guilty rebel hes ; 
And upward to the mercy-seat. 
Presumes to Uft his eyes. 

2 Will justice frown me hence ? 
Stay, Lord, the vengeful storm; 

Forbid it, that Omnipotence 
Sliould crush a feeble worm. 

3 If soiTow would suflSce 
To pay the debt I owe, 

Tears should, from both my weeping eyes. 
In ceaseless cmTents flow. 

4 But tears I will not plead 
To expiate my guilt ; 

No tears, but those which thou hast shed,- 
No blood, but thou hast spUt. 

5 Think of thy soitows. Lord ! 
And all my sins forgive; 

Then justice will approve the word 
That bids the sinner live. 

401 C. M. 

Knocking at ike door of mercy. 

LORD, at thy feet we sinners lie. 
And knock at mercy's door; 
With heavy heart, and doAvncast eye, 
Thy favour we implore. 



PEOTTENTIAL. 243 

2 Without thy grace, we sink oppressed, 
Do\7n to the gates of liell ; 

give our troubled spirits rest, — 
Our gloomy fears dispel. 

3 'Tis mercy, mercy, now we plead ; 
Let thy compassion move ; 

Mercy, that led thee once to bleed, 
In tenderness and love. 

4 In mercy, now, for Jesus' sake, 
God, our sins forgive ; 

Thy grace om* stubborn hearts can break, 
And, breaking, bid us live. 

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With thee there is mercy. 

SOY'REIGN Ruler, Lord of all, 
Prostrate at thy feet I fall ; 
Hear, hear, my ardent cry, — 
Frown not, lest I faint and die. 

2 Vilest of the sons of men, — 
Worst of rebels, I have been ; 
Oft abused thee to thy face, — 
Trampled on thy richest grace. 

3 Justly might thy Axngeful dait 
Pierce this bleeding, broken heart ; — 
Justly might thy kindled he 

Send me to eternal fii'e. 

4 But with thee is mercy found, — 
Balm to heal my every wound ; 
Soothe, soothe this troubled breast, — 
Give the weary wand'rer rest. 

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Mercy for the chief of sinners. 

DEPTH of mercy ! can there be 
Mercy still reseiTed for me ? 
Can my God his wi-ath forbear? 
Me, the chief of sinnei's, spare ? 



244 pi:kitential. 

2 I have long withstood his gra^^e ; 
Long provoked him to liis face; 
Would not hearken to his calls ; 
Grieved him by a thousand falls. 

3 Now incline me to repent ; 
Let me now my sins lament ; 
Now my foul revolt deplore, 
Weep, beheve, and sin no more. 

4 Kindled his relentings are; 
Me he now delights to spare ; 
Cries, How shall I give thee up ? — 
Lets the lifted thunder drop. 

5 Tliere for me the Saviour stands ; 
Shows his wounds, and spreads his hands ; 
God is love ! I know, I feel ; 

Jesus weeps, and loves me still. 

404 . c. M. 

Unwearied earnestness. 

FATHER, I stretch my hands to thee ; 
No other help I know : 
If thou withdraw thyself from me. 
Ah ! whither shall I go ? 

2 What did thine only Son endm-e, 
Before I drew my breath ! 

Wliat pain, what labour, to secure 
My soul from endless death ! 

3 Jesus, could I this beheve, 
I now should feel thy power ; 

And all my wants thou wouldst relieve, 
In this accepted hour. 

4 Author of faith ! to thee I lift 
My weary, longing eyes : 

O let me now receive that gift, — 
My soul without it dies. 



PENITENTIAL. 245 

6 Sui-ely thou canst not let me die; 

O speak, and I shall live ; 
And here I will unwearied he, 

TiU thou thy Spirit give. 

6 How would my fainting soul reioice. 

Could I but see thy face ; 
Now let me hear thy quick'ning voice, 

And taste thy pard'ning grace. 

405 12th P. M. 76, 76, 78, '76. 

Seeking refuge in the blood of the Lamb. 

GOD of my salvation hear. 
And help me to beheve ; 
Simply do I now draw near, 

Thy blessing to receive. 
Full of guilt, alas ! I am. 

But to thy wounds for refuge flee : 
Friend of sinners, spotless Lamb, 
Tliy blood was shed for me. 

2 Standing now as newly slain, 
To thee I lift mine eye ; 

Balm of all my grief and pain, 

Thy blood is always nigh. 
Now as yesterday the same 

Thou art, and wilt forever be : 
Friend of sinners, spotless Lamb, 

Thy blood was shed for me. 

3 jN"o good word, or work, or thought. 
Bring I to buy thy grace.; 

Pardon I accept, unbought, — 

Thy proffer I embrace. 
Coming as at first I came. 

To take, and not bestow on thee : 
Friend of sinners, spotless Lamb, 

Thy blood was shed for me. 



246 PENITENTIAL. 

406 .CM. 

Pleading His gracious name, 

LORD, I approach the mercy-seat, 
Where thou dost answer prayer; 
There hiunbly fall before thy feet, — 
For none can perish there 

2 Thy promise is my only plea; 
With this I venture nigh ; 

Thou callest burden'd souls to thee, 
And such, Lord, am I. 

3 Bow'd down beneath a load of sin. 
By Satan sorely press'd; 

By wars without, and fears within, 
I come to thee for rest. 

4 Be thou my shield and hiding-place; 
That, shelter'd near thy side, 

1 may rejoiv^e in Jesus' grace, — 

In Jesus crucified. 

5 0, wondrous love ! — to bleed and die, 
To bear the cross and shame, 

That guilty sinners, such as I, 
Might plead thy gracious name. 

407 L. M. 

The sceptre of His love. 

JESUS, whose glory's streaming rays. 
Though duteous to thy high command, 
Not seraphs view with open face, 

But veil'd before thy presence stand: — 

2 How shall weak eyes of flesh, weigh'd down 
With sin, and dim with error's night. 

Dare to behold thy awful throne, 
Or view thy unapproached light? 

3 Thy golden sceptre from above 

Reach forth ; lo ! my whole heart I bow ; 
Say to my soul, — Thou art my love, — 
My chosen 'midst ten thousand, thou. 



PENITENTIAL. 247 

4 Jesus, full of grace ! the sighs 
Of a sick heart with pity view ; 

Hark, how my silence speaks, and cries, — 
Mercy, thou God of mercy, show ! 

408 • L. M. 

The only plea, 

JESUS, the sinner's friend, to thee. 
Lost and undone, for aid I flee ; 
Weary of earth, myself, and sin : 
Open thine arms, and take me in. 

2 Pity and heal my sin-sick soul ; 
'Tis thou alone canst make me whole ; 
Dark, till in me thine image shine. 
And lost, I am, till thou art mine. 

3 At last I own it cannot be 
That I should fit myself for thee : 
Here, then, to thee I all resign ; 
Thine is the work, and only thine. 

4 What shall I say thy grace to move ? 
Lord, I am sin, — but thou art love : 

1 give up every plea beside, — 
Lord, I am lost — but thou hast died. 

409 6th P. M. 6 lines 7s. 

Clinging to the cross. 

SOCK of ages, cleft for me, 
Let me hide myself in thee ; 
Let the water and the blood. 
From thy wounded side which flow'd. 
Be of sin the double cure, — 
Save from wrath and make me pui'e. 

2 Could my tears forever flow, — 
Could my zeal no languor know,— ^ 
These for sin could not atone; 
Thou must save, and thou alone : 
In my hand no price I bring; 
Simply to the cross I cling. 



248 PENITENTIAL. 

3 While I draw this fleeting breath, 
When my eyes shall close in de^ith, 
Wlien I rise to worlds unknown, 
And behold thee on thy throne, — 
Rock of ages, cleft. for me, 
Let me hide myself in thee. 

410 6th P. M. 6 lines 1^ 
Now is the day of salvation. 

WHY not now, my God, my God ? 
Ready if thou always art. 
Make in me thy mean abode, — 
Take possession of my heart : 
If thou canst so greatly bow. 
Friend of sinners, why not now? 

2 God of love, in this thy day, 

For thyself to thee I cry ; 
Dying, — if thou still delay. 

Must I not forever die ? 
Enter now thy poorest home : 
Now, my utmost Saviour, come. 

411 4th P. M. 886, 886, 
Pleading the Saviour's vicarious sacrifice, 

PROSTRATE, with eyes of faith, I see 
My Saviour nail'd upon the tree, 
For me a victim made ; 
Himself presenting to the skies 
The grand vicarious sacrifice, 
Ajid on the altar laid. 

2 Well pleasing to om- God above. 
His sacrifice of fife and love 

I plead before the throne : 
Father, a prodigal receive. 
And bid a pardon'd rebel live, — 

The purchase of tliy Son. 



PEOTTENTIAL. 249 

412 4tliP. M. 886,886. 
Pleading the sacrificial death of CJirist 

OLAMB of God, for sinners slain, 
I plead with thee, my suit to gain, — 
I plead what thou hast done : 
Didst thou not die the death for me ? 
Jesus, remember Calvary, 

And break my heart of stone. 

2 Receive the purchase of thy blood. 
My Friend and Advocate with God, — 

My ransom and my peace : 
My Surety ! thou my debt hast paid, 
For all my sins atonement made, — 

The Lord my righteousness. 

3 let thy Spirit shed abroad 
The love of my redeeming God, 

In this cold heart of mine : 
O might He now descend, and rest 
Forever in this troubled breast. 

And keep me ever thine. 

413 L. M. 

The sacrijice of a broken heart. 

THOUGH I have grieved thy Spnit, Lord, 
Thy help and comfort still afford ; 
And let a wretch come near thy throne 
To plead the merits of thy Son. 

2 A broken heart, my God, my King, 
Is all the sacrifice I biing ; 

Thou God of grace, wilt thou despise 
A broken heart for sacrifice? 

3 My soul lies humbled in the dust, 
And owns the dreadful sentence just : 
Look down, Lord, with pitying eye. 
And save a soul condemned to die. 



250 PENITENTIAL. 

414 c. M. 

Looking unto Jesus. 

THOU Lamb of God, for sinners slain. 
To thee I humbly pray ; 
heal me of my grief and pain, — 

And take my sins away. 
Now from this bondage. Lord, release, 

And give the wand'rer rest : 
Redeemer, Saviour, seal my peace, 
And take me to thy breast. 

2 Thou wilt not cast a sinner out. 
Who humbly comes to thee ; 

My gracious Lord, I cannot doubt 

Thy mercy is for me : 
let me now obtain the grace. 

And find my long-sought rest : 
Redeemer, Saviour, seal my peace. 

And take me to thy breast. 

3 Mere worldly good I do not want; 
Be that to others given: 

Wliile only for thy love I pant. 

My all in earth or heaven : 
This is the cro^vn I fain would seize, — » 

With which I would be blest : 
Redeemer, Saviour, seal my peace. 

And take me to thy breast. 

415 12th P. M. 76, 76, 78, 76. 

Wretched^ and poor, and hlind^ and naked, 
WRETCHED, helpless, and distressed, 
VV Ah! whither shall I fly; 
Ever gasping after rest, — 

I cannot find it nigh : 
Naked, sick, and poor, and blind, — 

Fast bound in sin and misery, — 
Friend of sifnners, let me find 

My help, my all in thee. 



PENITENTIAL. 251 

2 Jesus, full of truth and grace, 
In thee is all I want; 

Be the wanderer's restmg-place, — 

A cordial to the faint : 
Make me rich, for I am poor; 

In thee may I my Eden find; 
To the dying, health restore, 

And eye-sight to the blind. 

3 Clothe me. Lord, with holiness, 
With meek humihty; 

Put on me that glorious dress, — 

Endue my soul with thee : 
Let thine image be restored ; 

Thy name and natm*e let me prove; 
With thy fulness fill me, Lord, 

And perfect me in love. 

416 c. M. 

The conquering love of Jesus, 

OTHAT I could my Lord receive. 
Who did the world redeem; 
Who gave his life that I might live 
A liife conceaFd in him. 

2 that I could the blessing prove, — 
My heart's extreme desire ; 

Live happy in my Saviour's love. 
And in his arms expire. 

3 Mercy I ask to seal my peace, 
That, kept by mercy's power, 

I may from every evil cease. 
And never grieve thee more. 

4 Now, if thy gracious ^vill it be. 
E'en now my sins remove, 

And set my soul at liberty 
By thy victorious love. 



252 PENITENTIAL. 

417 L. M. 

Only Jesus 

¥HEN, gracious Lord, when shall it be 
That I shall find my all in thee? 
The fulness of thy promise prove, — 
The seal of thine eternal love ? 

2 A poor bUnd child I wander here; 
If haply I may feel thee near : 

dark ! dark ! dark ! I still must say, 
Amidst the blaze of gospel day. 

3 Thee, only thee, I fain would find, 
And cast the world and flesh behind ; 
Thou, only thou, to me be given. 

Of all thou hast in earth or heaven. 

4 When from the arm of flesh set free, 
Jesus, my soul shall fly to thee : 
Jesus, when I have lost my all, 

1 shall upon thy bosom fall. 

418 .. s. M. 

Waiting at the cross. 

FATHER, I dare beheve 
Thee merciful and true : 
Thou wilt my guilty soul forgive, — 
My fallen soul renew. 

2 Come then, for Jesus' sake, 
And bid my heart be clean ; 

An end of all my troubles make, — 
An end of all my sin. 

3 I cannot wash my heart, 
But by belie^dng thee, 

And waiting for thy blood t' impart 
The spotless purity. 

4 While at thy cross I he, 
Jesus, the grace bestow; 

' Now thy all-cleansing blood apply. 
And I am white as snow. 



PENITENTIAL. 253 

419 10th p. M. 8 lines 8s. 
Save, Lord, or I perish 

JESUS, in pity draw near ; 
Come quickly to help a lost soul ; 
To comfort a mourner, appear. 

And make a poor penitent whole : 
The balm of thy mercy apply ; 

(Thou seest the sore anguish I feel ;) 
Save, Lord, or I perish, I die ; 

save, or I sink into hell. 
2 I sink, if thou longer delay 

Thy pardoning mercy to show : 
Come quickly, and kindly display 

The power of thy passion below : 
By all thou hast done for my sake, 

One drop of thy blood I implore ; 
Now, now let it touch me, and make 

The sinner — a sinner no more. 

420 L.M. 

Deprecating the withdrawal of the Spirit. 

STAY, thou insulted Spirit, stay. 
Though I have done thee such despite; 
Nor cast the sinner quite away. 
Nor take thine everlasting^ flio^ht. 

2 Though I have steel'd my stubborn heai t, 
And shaken off my guilty fears ; 

And vex'd, and urged thee to depart, 
For many long rebeUious years : 

3 Though I have most unfaithful been, 
Of all who e'er thy grace received ; 

Ten thousand times thy goodness seen; 
Ten thousand times thy goodness grieved : 

4 Yet, ! the chief of sinners spare, 
In honour of my great High Priest ; 

Nor in thy righteous anger swear 

To' exclude me from thv people's rest. 



254 PENITENTIAL. 

421 10th P. M. S lines Ss. 

Ardent desires for the Spirifs injiuenccfi. 

COME, holy, celestial Dove, 
To visit a sorrowful breast ; 
My bui'den of guilt to remove, 

And bring me assurance and rest. 
Thou only hast power to relieve 

A sinner o'erwhelm'd ^dth his load; 
The sense of acceptance to give, 

And sprinkle his heart with the blood. 

2 With me if of old thou hast strove, 
And strangely withheld me from sin, 

And tried, by the lure of thy love, 
My worthless affections to win ; 

The work of thy mercy revive ; 
Thy uttermost mercy exert ; 

And kindly continue to strive. 

And hold, till I }deld thee my heai-t. 

3 Thy call if I ever have known, 
And sigh'd from myself to get free. 

And groan'd the unspeakable groan. 
And long'd to be happy in thee ; 

Fulfil the imperfect deshe ; 

Thy peace to my conscience reveal; 

The sense of thy favour inspu-e. 
And give me my pardon to feel. 

422 c. M. 

The surrender. 

HOW oft have I the Spuit grieved. 
Since first with me he strove; 
How obstinately disbelieved, 
And trampled on liis love ! 
How have I sinn'd against the light; 

Broken from his embrace ; 
And would not, when I freely might. 
Be justified by grace. 



PEOTTENTIAL. 255 

2 But after all that I have done 
To drive him from my heart, 

The Spirit leaves me not alone, — 

He doth not yet depart ; 
He ^vill not give the sinner o'er; 

Ready e'en now to save, 
He bids me come as heretofore, 

That I liis grace may have. 

3 I take thee at thy gracious word; 
My foohslmess I mourn; 

And unto my redeeming Lord, 

However late, I turn: 
Saviour, I yield, I yield at last ; 

I hear thy speaking blood; 
Myself, Avith all my sins, I cast 

On my atoning God. 

423 6th P. M. 6 lines Is. 

Tlie Light of Life. 

DISCLOSE thy lovely face ! 
Quicken all my drooping powers ; 
Gasps my fainting soul for grace. 
As a thirsty land for showers : 
Hasten, Lord, no more delay ; 
Come, my Sa^dour, come away. 

2 Dark and cheerless is the mom. 
Unaccompanied by thee ; 

Joyless is the day's return, 

Till thy mercy's beams I see : 
Till thou inward life impart. 
Glad my eyes, and wai^m my heart. 

3 Visit then this soul of mine ; 
Pierce the gloom of sin and grief; 

Fill me. Radiancy divine ; 
Scatter all my imbehef : 
More and more thyself display, 
Shining to the perfect day. 



256 PENITENTIAL. 

424 S. M. 

Groaning for deliverance., 

WHEN shall thy love constrain, 
And force me to thy breast ? 
When shall my soul return again 
To her eternal rest ? 

2 Ah ! what avail my strife, — 
My wandering to and fro ? 

Thou hast the words of endless life : 
Ah ! whither should I go ? 

3 Thy condescending grace 
To me did freely move ; 

It calls me still to seek thy face, 
And stoops to ask my love. 

4 Lord, at thy feet I fall ; 
I groan to be set free ; 

1 fain would now obey the call, 

And give up all for thee, 

425 . . L.M. 

Hope springing up. 

MY soul before thee prostrate lies ; 
To thee, her Source, my spirit flies ; 
My wants I moui'n, my chains I see ; 
O let thy presence set me free. 

2 Jesus, vouchsafe my heart and will 
With thy meek lowliness to fill ; 

No more her power let natm^e boast. 
But in thy will may mine be lost. 

3 Already springing hope I feel, — 
God will destroy the power of hell, 
And, from a land of wars and pain, 
Lead me where peace and safety reign. 

4 One only care my soul shall know, — 
Father, all thy commands to do ; 

And feel, what endless years shall prove, 
That thou, my Lord, my God, art love- 



PENITENTIAL. 257 

426 c.M. 

Struggling mto liberty, 

JESUS ! Redeemer, Savioui*, Lord, 
The weary sinner's Friend ; 
Come to my help, pronounce the word, 
And bid my troubles end. 

2 Deliv'rance to my soul proclaim. 
And life and Uberty ; 

Shed forth the \irtue of thy Name, 
And Jesus prove to me. 

3 Faith to be heal'd thou know'st I have, 
For thou that faith hast given ; 

Tliou canst, thou wilt, the shmer save. 
And make me meet for heaven. 

4 Thou canst overcome this heart of mine ; 
Thou wilt victorious prove ; 

For everlasting strength is thine. 
And everlasting love. 

427 S. M. 

Embracing offered mercy, 

OMY oflfended God ! 
If now at last I see 
That I have trampled on thy blood. 

And done despite to thee ; 
If I begin to wake 

Out of my deadly sleep ; 
Into thine anns of mercy take. 

And there forever keep. 
2 No other light have I, 

Than what the world may claim ; 
And all may to their God draw nigh, 

Thi'ough faith in Jesus' name : 
Thy death hath wi'ought the power 

For eveiy sinful soul ; 
Tliat all may kno^v the gracious hour. 

And be by faith made whole. 
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258 PENITENTIAL. 

3 Thou hast for sinners died, 

That all might come to God ; 
The covenant thou hast ratified. 

And seal'd it with thy blood : 
Thou hast obtained the grace 

That all may turn and live ; 
And now thy oflFer I embrace, — 

Thy mercy I receive. 

428 s. M. 

Embracing the all-sufficient Portion, 

AND can I yet delay 
My little all to give? 
To tear my soul from earth away 
For Jesus to receive ? 

2 ITay, but I yield, I yield ; 
I can hold out no more : 

I sink, by dying love compelled. 
And own thee conqueror. 

3 Though late, I all forsake ; 
My friends, my all, resign : 

Gracious Redeemer, take, take. 
And seal me ever thine. 

4 Come, and possess me whole. 
Nor hence again remove ; 

Settle and fix my wav'ring soul 
With all thy weight of love. 

5 My one desire be this, — 
Thy only love to know ; 

To seek and taste no other bliss, — 
N"o other good below. 

6 My life, my portion thou ; 
Thou all-sufficient art : 

My hope, my heavenly treasure, now 
Enter, and keep my heart. 



PENITENTIAL. 259 

429 . S M. 

Light davming upon the soul, 

OUT of the depths of wo, 
To thee, Lord, I cry ; 
Darkness surrounds me, but I know 
That thou art ever nigh. 

2 Humbly on thee I wait. 
Confessing all my sin ; 

Lord, I am knocking at the gate ; 
Open, and take me in. 

3 hearken to my voice, — 
Give ear to my complaint ; 

Thou bidd'st the mom-ning soul rejoice. 
Thou comfoiiest the faint. 

4 Glory to God above, — 
The waters soon will cease ; 

For, lo ! the s^vift retmning dove 
Brings home the sign of peace. 

5 Though stonns his face obscure. 
And dangers threaten loud ; 

Jehovah's covenant is sure, — 
His bow is in the cloud. 

430 . . CM. 

7%c returning prodigal. 

THE long-lost son, with streaming eyes, 
From folly just awake. 
Reviews his wand'rings with surprise ; 
His heart begins to break. 

2 I starve, he cries, nor can I bear 
The famine in this land. 

While servants of my Father share 
The bounty of his hand. 

3 With deep repentance I'll return, 
And seek my Father's face ; 

Unworthy to be calFd a son, 
I'll ask a servant's place. 



260 PENITENTIAL. 

4 Far oflf the Father saw him move, — 
In pensive silence mourn, — 

And quickly ran, with arms of love. 
To welcome his return. 

5 Through all the courts the tidings flew. 
And spread the joy around ; 

The angels tuned their harps anew, — 
The long-lost son is found ! 

431 12th P.M. 76, 76, 78, 76. 

Saved by grace. 

LET the world their virtue boast, — 
Then- works of righteousness ; 
I, a wretch undone and lost. 

Am freely saved by grace ; 
Other title I disclaim ; 

This, only this, is all my plea : — 

1 the chief of sinners am, 
. But Jesus died for me. 

2 Happy they whose joys abound 
Like Jordan's swelling stream ; 

Who their heaven in Christ have found, 

And give the praise to him. 
Meanest follVer of the Lamb, 

His steps I at a distance see : — 
I the chief of sinners am. 

But Jesus died for me. 

3 Jesus, thou for me hast died, 
And thou in me wilt Uve ; 

I shall feel thy death applied ; 

I shall thy life receive : 
Yet, when melted in the flame 

Of love, this shall be all my plea, — 
T the chief of sinners am. 

But Jesus died for me. 



THE CHRISTIAN LIFE. 



JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH. 

432 nth P. M. 16, 16, 11, 16. 

Tlie righteousness of faith. 

OFT I in my heart have said, — 
Who shall ascend on high, 
Mount to Chiist, my glorious Head, 

And brmg him from the sky ? 
Borne on contemplation's wing. 
Surely I shall find him there, 
Where the angels praise their King, 
And gain the Morning Star. 

2 Oft I in my heart have said, — 
Who to the deep shall stoop, 

Sink with Christ among the dead. 
From thence to bring him up ? 

Could I but my heart prepare, 
By unfeigned humihty, 

Christ would quickly enter there, 
And ever dwell in me. 

3 But the righteousness of faith 
Hath taught me better things : — 

Inward turn thine eyes, — it saith, 
While Christ to me it brings : — 

Christ is ready to impart 

Life to all, for life who sigh : 

In thy mouth and in thy heart 
The word is ever nigh. 

433 L. M. 

The Lord our righteousness. 

LET not the wise their wisdom boast. 
The mighty glory in their might ; 
The rich in flatt'ring riches trust, 
Wliich take their everlasting flight. 



262 JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH. 

2 The rush of numVoiis years bears down 
The most gigantic strength of man ; 

And where is all his wisdom gone, 
When, dust, he turns to dust again ? 

3 One only gift can justify 

The boasting soul that knows his God ; 
When Jesus doth his blood apply, 
I glory in his sprinkled blood. 

4 The Lord my righteousness I praise, 
I triumph in the love di\ine ; 

The wisdom, wealth, and strength of grace. 
In Christ to endless ages mine. 

434 6th P. M. 6 lines 7s. 
The covenant of grace signed and sealed. 

JESUS Christ, Avho stands between 
Angry Heaven and guilty men. 
Undertakes to buy our peace ; 
Gives the covenant of grace ; 
Ratifies and makes it good; 
Signs and seals it Avith his blood. 
2 Life his healing blood imparts. 
Sprinkled in our peaceful hearts; 
Abel's blood for vengeance cried ; 
Jesus' speaks us justified ; 
Speaks and calls for better things ; 
Makes us prophets, priests, and kings. 

435 ... L.M. 

The realizing light qfjaith, 

AUTHOR of faith, eternal Word, 
Whose Spirit breathes the active flame ; 
Faith, like its finisher and Lord, 

To-day, as yesterday, the same : — 
2 To thee om- humble hearts aspire, 

And ask the gift unspeakable ; 
Increase in us the kindled fire. 
In us the work of faitli fulfil. 



JUSTIFICATION^ BY FAITR 263 

3 By faith we know thee strong to save : 
(Save us, a present Saviour thou :) 

Whate'er we hope, by faith we have ; 
Future, and past, subsisting now. 

4 To him that in thy Name beheves, 
Eternal life with thee is given ; 

Into hiiaself he all receives, — 
Pardon, and holiness, and heaven. 

5 The things unknown to feeble sense. 
Unseen by reason's ghmm'ring ray. 

With strong commanding evidence. 
Their heavenly origin display. 

6 Faith lends its realizing hght ; 

The clouds disperse, the shadows fly ; 
The' Invisible appears in sight. 
And God is seen by mortal eye. 

436 L.M. 

Salvation ordy hy grace through faith, 

VE have no outward righteousness. 
No merits or good works, to plead ; 
We only can be saved by grace ; 
Thy grace, Lord, is free indeed. 

2 Save us by grace, through faith alone, — 
A faith thou must thyself impart ; 

A faith that would by works be shown, 
A faith that purifies the heart : 

3 A faith that doth the mountains move, 
A faith that shows our sins forgiven, 

A- faith that sweetly works by love. 
And ascertains our claim to heaven. 

4 This is the faith we humbly seek. 
The faith in thy all-cleansing blood ; 

That faith which doth for sinners speak, 
let it speak us up to God ! 



264 JUSTIFICATI0]5r BY FAITH. 

437 1st p. M. 6 lines 8s. 
The soul's anchor, 

NOW I have found the ground wherein 
Sure my soul's anchor may remain ; 
The wounds of Jesus for my sin, 

Before the world's foundation slain ; 
Whose mercy shall unshaken stay, 
When heaven and earth are fled away. 

2 Father, thine everlasting grace 
Our scanty thought surpasses far : 

Thy heart still melts with tenderness ; 

Tliine arms of love still open are. 
Returning sinners to receive, 
That mercy they may taste, and live. 

3 love, thou bottomless abyss ! 
My sins are swallowed up in thee ; 

Cover'd is my unrighteousness, 

Nor spot of guilt remains on me : 
While Jesus' blood, through earth and skies, 
Mercy, free, boundless mercy, cries. 

4 By faith I plunge me in this sea ; 
Here is my hope, my joy, my rest ; 

Hither, when hell assails, I flee ; 

I look into my Sa\aom''s breast : 
Away, sad doubt and anxious fear ! 
Mercy is all that 's wBtten there. 

438 c.M. 

Faith counted for righteousness 

FATHER of Jesus Christ, my Lord,— 
My Saviour, and my Head, — 

1 trust in thee, whose powerful word 

Hath raised him from the dead. 

2 Thou know'st for my ofience he died. 
And rose again for me ; 

Fully and freely justified, 
That I might five to thee. 



JUSTIi'lCATION BY FAITR. 265 

3 God ! thy record I believe, 
In Abrali'm's footsteps tread ; 

And wait, expecting to receive 
The Christ, the promised Seed. 

4 Faith in thy power thou seest I have, 
For thou this faith hast wrought ; 

Dead souls thou callest from the grave, 
And speakest worlds from naught. 

5 Eternal life to all mankind 
Thou hast in Jesus given : 

And all who seek, in him shall find 
The happiness of heaven. 

439 . c.M. 

Continued. — Victorious faith. 

IN hope, against all human hope, 
Self-desp'rate, I beheve, — 
Thy quick'ning word shall raise me up ; 
Thou wilt tby Spirit give. 

2 The thing sm-passes all my thought ; 
But faithful is my Lord ; 

Through unbelief I stagger not, 
For God hath spoke the word. 

3 Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees. 
And looks to that alone ; 

Laughs at impossibilities. 

And cries, — It shall be done ! 

4 To thee the glory of thy power 
And faitlifulness I give ; 

I shall in Christ, at that glad hour, 
And Christ hi me shall live. 

5 Obedient faith, that waits on thee. 
Thou never Avilt reprove ; 

But thou wilt foiTn thy Son in me, 
And perfect me in love. 



266 JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH. 

440 c. M. 

Peace in believing, 

JESUS, to thee I now can fly, 
On whom my help is laid: 
Oppressed by sins, I lift mine eye, 
And see the shadows fade. 

2 BeUeving on my Lord, I find 
A sm-e and present aid: 

On thee alone my constant mind 
Be every moment stay'd. 

3 Whatever in me seems wise, or good, 
Or strong, I here disclaim: 

1 wash my garments in the blood 

Of the atoning Lamb. 

4 Jesus, my strength, my life, my rest,— 
On thee will I depend. 

Till smnmon'd to the marriage-feast. 
When faith in sight shall end. 

441 CM. 

This is life eternal. 

THE wisdom o^vn'd by all thy sons. 
To me, God, impart; 
The knowledge of the holy ones, — 

The miderstanding heart. 
Thy name, holy Father, tell 

To one who would beUeve ; 
To me thine only Son reveal, — 
Thy Holy Spuit give. 

2 'Tis life eternal to believe 
The heavenly Persons mine : 

Father, and Son, and Spirit give 

That precious faith di^dne. 
A Trinity in Unity 

My soul shall then adore; 
And love, and praise, and worship thee, 

Jehovah, evermore. 



JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH. 267 

442 c. M. 

The blood ofsprinhling. 

MY God, my God, to thee I cry; 
Thee only would I know ; 
Thy purifying blood apply, 
And wash me white as snow. 

2 Touch me, and make the leper clean ; 
Purge my iniquity : 

Unless thou wash my soul from sin, 
I have no part in thee. 

3 But art thou not already mine ? 
Answer, if mine thou art ; 

Whisper within, thou love divine, 
And cheer my drooping heart. 

4 Behold, for me the Victim bleeds, — 
His wounds are open wide ; 

For me the blood of sprinkling pleads, 
And speaks me justified. 

443 s. M. 

Self-righteousness destroyed. 

A GOODLY, formal saint, 
I long appeared in sight; 
By self and Satan taught to paint 

My tomb, my nature, white. 
The Pharisee within 

Still undisturb'd remained ; 
The strong man, arm'd with guilt of sin, 

Safe in his palace reign'd. 
2 But, 0, the jealous God 

In my behalf came down ; 
Jesus himself the stronger show'd. 

And claim'd me for his own. 
My spirit he alarm' d, 

And brought into distress , 
He shook and bound the strong man, arm'd 

In his self-righteousness. 



268 JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH. 

3 Faded my virtuous show, — 

My form without the power; 
The sin-convincing Spirit blew, 

And blasted every flower : 
My mouth was stopped, and shame 

Cover'd my guilty face ; 
I fell on the atoning Lamb, 

And I was saved by grace. 

444 L. M. 

Graven on the palms of His hands, 

JESUS, the Lamb of God, hath bled ; 
He bore our sins upon the tree ; 
Beneath our curse he bow'd his head ; — • 
'Tis finished ! he hath died for me. 

2 See, where before the throne he stands. 
And poui's the all-prevailing prayer ; 

Points to his side, and hfts his hands. 
And shows that I am graven there. 

3 He ever lives for me to pray ; 

He prays that I with him may reign : 
Amen to what my Lord doth say; 
Jesus, thou canst not pray in vain. 

445 1st P. M. 6 Urns 8s. 

No condeinnation to them that are in Christ Jesus, 

AND can it be that I should gain 
An int'rest in the Saviom-'s blood ? 
Died he for me, who caused his pain ? 

For me, who him to death pursued ? 
Amazing love ! how can it be. 
That thou, my Lord, shouldst die for me ? 
2 'Tis myst'ry all, — the' Immortal dies ! 

Who can explore his strange design ? 
In vain the first-born seraph tries 

To sound the depths of love divine ; 
Tis mercy all ! let earth adore : 
Let angel minds inquire no more. 



JUSTIPICATION BY FAITH. 2G9 

3 He left his Father's throne above ; 
(So free, so infinite his grace !) 

Emptied himself of all but love, 

And bled for Adam's helpless race ; 
'Tis mercy all, immense and free, 
For, my God, it found out me ! 

4 Long my imprisoned spirit lay, 

Fast bound in sin and nature's night : 
Thine eye diffused a quickening ray ; 

I woke ; the dungeon flamed with light : 
My chains fell off", my heart was free, — 
I rose, went foii-h, and follow'd thee. 

5 No condemnation now I dread, — 
Jesus, with all in him, is mine ; 

Alive in him, my hving Head, 

And clothed in righteousness divine. 
Bold I approach the' eternal throne, 
And claim the crown, through Christ my owa 

446 L. M. 

Embraang the Saviour by faith. 

INTO thy gracious hands I fall, 
And with the arms of faith embrace ; 

King of glory, hear my call ; 

raise me, heal me by thy grace. 
Now righteous through thy grace I am ; 
No condemnation now I dread ; 

1 taste salvation in thy name, — 
Alive in thee, my living Head. 

2 Still let thy wisdom be my guide. 
Nor take thy flight from me away ; 

Still with me let thy grace abide, 
That I from thee may never stray: 

Let thy word richly in me dwell, — 
Thy peace and love my portion be: 

My joy to' endure and do thy will, 
Till perfect I am found in thee. 



270 JUSTIFICATION BY FAHH. 

447 C. M. 

The blood applied, 

IN answer to ten thousand prayers, 
Thou pardoning God, descend : 
Number me with salvation's heirs, — 

My sins and troubles end. 
2 Nothing I ask or want beside. 

Of all in earth or heaven : 
But let me feel thy blood applied, 
And hve and die forgiven. 

448 L. M. 

The hightvay of holiness, 

JESUS, my all, to heaven is gone, — 
He, whom I fix my hopes upon; 
His track I see, and I '11 pursue 
The narrow way, till him I view. 

2 The way the holy prophets went, — 
The road that leads from banishment, — 
The King's highway of holiness, 

I '11 go, for all his paths are peace. 

3 This is the way I long have sought, 
And moum'd because I found it not; 
My grief a burden long has been. 
Because I was not saved from sin. 

4 The more I strove against its power, 
I felt its weight and guilt the more ; 
Till late I heard my Saviour say, — 
Come hither, soul, I am the way. 

5 Lo ! glad I come ; and thou, blest Lamb, 
Shalt take me to thee, as I am ; 
Nothing but sin have I to give, — 
Nothing but love shall I receive. 

6 Then will I tell to sinners round. 
What a dear Saviour I have found ; 
I '11 point to thy redeeming blood. 
And say, — Behold the way to God. 



JUSTIFICATION BY FAIl'IL 271 

449 L- M. 

The riches of His grace. 

VHAT am I, thou glorious God ! 
And what my father's house to thee. 
That thou such mercy hast bestow'd 
On me, the vilest reptile, me ? 

2 Me, in my blood, thy love pass'd by. 
And stopp'd my ruin to retrieve ; 

Wept o'er my soul thy pitjdng eye ; 

Thy bowels yeam'd, and sounded, — Live ! 

3 Dying, I heard the welcome sound. 
Received the blessing from above. 

And pardon in thy mercy found, 
Astonish'd at thy boundless love. 

4 Honour, and might, and thanks, and praise, 
I render to my pard'ning God ; 

Extol the riches of thy grace. 

And spread thy saving name abroad. 

5 I magnify thy gracious power. 

And all within me shouts thy Name: 
Thy Name let every soul adore ; 

Thy power let eveiy tongue proclaim. 

450 1st P. M. 6 lines ^s>. 

The covenant signed and sealed. 

THIS day the covenant I sign, — 
The bond of sure and promised peace ; 
Nor can I doubt its power divine. 

Since seal'd with Jesus' blood it is ; 
That blood I take, that blood alone. 
And make the cov'nant peace mine own. 
2 But, that my faith no more may know 

Or change, or interval, or end, — 
Help me in all thy paths to go. 

And now, as e'er, thy voice attend ; 
And deign, Lord, to call me thine, 
And I will dare to call thee mine. 



272 JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH. 

451 L. M. 

Vows remembered and renewed. 

HAPPY day that fix'd my choice 
On thee, my Sa^dom* and my God ! 
Well may this glowing heart rejoice, 
And tell its raptures all abroad. 

2 happy bond, that seals my vows 
To Him who merits all my love ; 

Let cheerful anthems fill his house, 
While to that sacred shrine I move. 

3 'Tis done, the great transaction's done; 

1 am my Lord's, and he is mine ; 
He drew me, and I foUow'd on, 

Charm'd to confess the voice divine. 

4 Now rest, my long-divided heai-t; 
Fix'd on this blissful centre, rest; 

Nor ever from thy Lord depart: 
With him of every good possessed. 

5 High Heaven, that heard the solemn voW; 
That vow renewed shall daily hear. 

Till in life's latest hour I bow, 

And bless in death a bond so dear. 

452 15th P. M. 12 9, 12 9. 
Joy €>fthe young convert, 

OHOW happy are they, 
Who the Saviour obey, 
And have laid up their treasm-e above ; 
Tongue can never express 
The sweet comfort and peace 
Of a soul in its earUest love. 

2 That sweet comfort was mine, 
When the favour divine 

I received through the blood of the Lamb ; 

When my heart first believed, 

What a joy I received, — 
What a heaven in Jesus's name! 



JUSTIFICATION BY PAITH. 273 

3 'Twas a heaven below 
My Redeemer to know, 

And the angels could do nothing more. 

Than to fall at his feet, 

And the story repeat. 
And the Lover of smners adore. 

4 Jesus all the day long 
Was my joy and my song : 

that all his salvation might see ; 
He hath loved me, I cried, 

He hath suffer'd and died, 
To redeem even rebels like me. 

5 the rapturous height 
Of that holy delight 

Which I felt in the life-gi^dng blood ; 

Of my Saviour possess'd, 

I was perfectly blest. 
As if fill'd with the fulness of God. 

453 Yth P. M. 8 lines 7s. 

Comfort arising from a sense of pardon, 

HAPPY soul, who sees the day. 
The glad day of Gospel-grace : 
Thee, my Lord, thou then wilt say, 

Thee will I forever praise ; 
Though thy wrath against me bum'd, 

Tliou dost comfort me aorain ; 

All thy wrath aside is tum'd, — 

Thou hast blotted out my sin. 

2 Me, behold ; thy mercy spares ; 

Jesus my salvation is ; 
Hence, my doubts ; away, my fears ; 

Jesus is become my peace : 
Jah, Jehovah, is my Lord, 

Ever merciful and just ; 

1 will lean upon his word ; 

I will on his promise trust. 
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274 JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH. 

454 5th P. M. 4 lines Ts. 

Love to the Saviour. 

HARK, my soiil, it is the Lord ; 
'Tis thy Saviour, — hear his word. 
Jesus speaks, he speaks to thee: — 
Say, poor sinner, lov'st thou me ? 

2 Lord, it is my chief complaint 
That my love is still so faint. 
Yet I love thee and adore: 

for grace to love thee more ! 

455 10th P. M. 8 lines 8s. 
Thy vows are upon me, God, 

OHOW shall a sinner perform 
The vows he hath vow'd to the Lord ? 
A sinful and impotent worm. 

How can I be true to my word ? 

1 tremble at what I have done : 

send me thy help from above : 
The power of thy Spirit make known. 
The vu'tue of Jesus's love. 

2 My solemn engagements are vain ; 
My promises empty as air; 

My vows, I shall break them again. 
And plunge in eternal despair: 

Unless my omnipotent God 

The sense of his goodness impart. 

And shed, by his Spirit, abroad 
The love of himself in my heart. 

456 L- M. 

The healing and cleansing Fountain. 

BY faith I to the fountain fly, 
Open'd for all mankind and me. 
To purge my sins of deepest dye, — 
My life and heart's impurity. 



JUSTIFICATION BY FAITR 275 

2 From Christ, the smitten Rock, it flows, 
The pm-ple and the crystal stream ; 

Pardon and holiness bestows, 

And both I gain tlirough faith in him. 

457 13th P. M. 10,10,11,11. 
The plenteousness of His grace. 

OWHAT shall I do my Sa\aoiir to praise. 
So faithful and true, so plenteous in grace ; 
So strong to dehver, so good to redeem. 
The weakest believer that hangs upon him. 

2 How happy the man whose heart is set free ; 
The people that can be joyful in thee ; 

Their joy is to walk in the hght of thy face, 
And still they are talking of Jesus's grace. 

3 For thou art their boast, their glory, and power. 
And I also trust to see the glad hour, 

My soul's new creation, a hfe from the dead, 
The day of salvation that lifts up my head. 

4 For Jesus, my Lord, is now my defence ; 

1 trust in his word ; none plucks me from thence ; 
Since I have found favour, he all things, will do ; 
My King and my Saviour shall make me anew. 

5 Yes, Lord, I shall see the bliss of thine own , 
Thy secret to me shall soon be made known; 
For soiTOw and sadness I joy shall receive. 
And share in the gladness of all that beheve. 

458 14th P. M. 10,11,10,11, 

Accepted in the Beloved, 

ALL praise to the Lamb ! accepted I am. 
Through faith in the Sa^aour's adorable Name : 
In him I confide, his blood is appHed ; 
For me he hath sufifer'd, for me he hath died. 

2 Not a doubt doth arise, to darken the skies. 
Or hide for a moment my Lord from mine eyes." 
In him I am blest, I lean on his breast. 

And lo ! in his wounds I continue to rest. 



276 ADOPTION AND ASSURANCE. 



A.DOPTION AND ASSURANCE. 

459 S. M. 

Knowledge of forgiveness. 

HOW can a sinner know 
His sins on earth forgiven? 
How can my gracious Saviour show 
My name inscribed in heaven ? 

2 What we have felt and seen 
With confidence we tell; 

And publish to the sons of men, 
The signs infallible. 

3 We who in Christ beUeve 
That he for us hath died, 

We all his unknown peace receive. 
And feel his blood apphed. 

4 Exults our rising soul, 
Disburden'd of her load. 

And swells, unutterably full 
Of glory and of God. 

5 His love, sui'passing far 
The love of all beneath, 

We find within our hearts, and dare 
The pointless darts of death. 

6 Stronger than death or hell 
The sacred power we prove ; 

And, conqu'rors of the world, we dwell 
In heaven, who dwell in love. 

460 S. M. 

Continued. — The indwelling Spirit, 

¥E by his Spirit prove. 
And know the things of God,— 
The things which freely of his love 
He hath on us bestow'd. 



ADOPTION AND ASSURANCE. 277 

2 His Spirit, which he gave, 
Now dwells in us, we know; 

The witness in ourselves we have. 
And all its fruits we show. 

3 The meek and lowly heart. 
That in our Saviour was, 

To U5 his Spirit does impart, 
And signs us with his cross. 

4 Our nature 's turn'd, our mind 
TransfoiTQ'd in all its powers ; 

And both the witnesses are join'd,^ 
Thy Spirit, Lord, with ours. 

5 Whatever our pard'ning Lord 
Commands, we gladly do ; 

And, guided by his sacred word, 
We all his steps pursue. 

6 His glory our design. 

We live our God to please ; 
And rise, with fihal fear divine. 
To perfect holiness. 

461 s. M. 

Seeking the evidence of acceptance. 
r LISTEN for the voice 
X Which speaks my sins forgiven; 
Speak, Lord, and bid my heart rejoice 

In certain hope of heaven. 
Thy Name may I prove. 

Thy Name inscribed on me ; 
And triumph in redeeming love 

Through all eternity. 

462 CM. 

The earnest and pledge of joys to come. 

VHY should the children of a King 
Go mourning all their days? 
Great Comforter, descend and bring 
The tokens of thy grace. 



278 ADOPTION AND ASSURANCE. 

2 Dost thou not dwell in all thy saints, 
And seal the heirs of heaven ? 

When wilt thou banish my complaints, 
And show my sins forgiven? 

3 Assure my conscience of her part 
In the Redeemer's blood ; 

And bear thy witness with my heart, 
That I am born of God. 

4 Thou art the earnest of his love, — 
The pledge of joys to come; 

May thy blest wings, celestial Dove, 
Safely convey me home. 

463 L. M. 

Rejoicing in forgiving love, 

MY soul, with humble fervour raise 
To God the voice of grateful praise, 
And all my ransom'd powers combiae, 
To bless his attributes divine. 

2 Deep on my heart let mem'ry trace 
His acts of mercy and of grace ; 
Whd, with a Father's tender care. 
Saved me when sinking in despair; 

3 Gave my repentant soul to prove 
The joy of his forgiving love ; 
Pour'd balm into my bleeding breast, 
And led my weary feet to rest. 

464 . , . L-M- 

Shouting God'S praises, 

MY soul, through my Redeemer's care, 
Saved from the second death, I feel ; 
Mine eyes from tears of dark despair, 

My feet from faUing into hell. 
2 Wherefore to him my feet shall run ; 

My eyes on his perfections gaze ; 
My soul shall live for God alone. 
And all within me shout his praise. 



ADOPTION AND ASSURANCE. 279 

465 c. M. 

The Godhead reamciled. 

COME, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, 
One God in persons three ; 
Bring back tlie heavenly blessing lost 
By all mankind and me. 

2 Thy favour and thy nature too. 
To me, to all restore ; 

Forgive, and after God renew. 
And keep me evermore. 

3 Eternal Sun of Righteousness, 
Display thy beams divine. 

And cause the glories of thy face 
Upon my heart to shine. 

4 Light, in thy light, may I see, 
Thy grace and mercy prove ; 

Revived, and cheer'd, and blest by thee, 
The God of pard'ning love. 

5 Lift up thy countenance serene. 
And let thy happy child 

Behold, without a cloud between. 
The Godhead reconciled. 

6 That all-comprising peace bestow 
On me, through grace forgiven ; 

The joys of holiness below. 
And then the joys of heaven. 

466 . c. M. 

The spirit of adoption, 

FATHER, I wait before thy throne : 
Call me a child of thine : 
Send down the Spirit of thy Son, 

To form my heart di™e. 
2 There shed thy promised love abroad^ 

And make my comfort strong ; 
Then shall I say, — My Father, God ! 
With an unwav'rinnr tonorue. 



280 ADOPTION AND ASSURAJJ^CE. 

467 6th P. M. 6 lines 7s. 
The Spirit of God dwelleth in you. 

ABBA, Father, hear thy child, 
Late in Jesus reconcHed; 
Hear, and all the graces shower. 
All the joy, and peace, and power ; 
All my Saviour asks above, 
All the life and heaven of love. 

2 Lord, I will not let thee go 
Till the blessing thou bestow : 
Hear my Advocate divine : 
Lo ! to his my suit I join : 
Join'd to his, it cannot fail : 
Bless me ; for I will prevail. 

3 Heavenly Father, life divine, 
Change my nature into thine ; 

Move, and spread throughout my soul 
Actuate, and fill the whole: 
Be it I no longer now 
Living in the flesh, but thou. 

4 Holy Ghost, no more delay; 
Come, and in thy temple stay: 
Now thine inward witness bear. 
Strong, and permanent, and clear: 
Spring of life, thyself impart ; 
Rise eternal in my heart. 

468 2d P. M. 6 lines 8s. 
The sanctifying and sealing Spirit. 

TjlATHER of everlasting grace, 

JD Thy goodness and thy truth we praise, 

Thy goodness and thy truth we prove; 
Thou hast, in honour of thy Son, 
The gift unspeakable sent down, — 

Spirit of life, and power, and love. 



ADOPTION AND AbSURANCE. 281 

2 Send us the Spii-it of thy Son, 

To make the depths of Godhead known. 
To make us sliare the life divine : 

Send him the sprinkled blood to' apply ; 

Send him our souls to sanctify. 
And show and seal us ever thine. 

3 So shall we pray, and never cease; 
So shall we thankfully confess 

Thy wisdom, truth, and power, and lo^e; 
With joy unspeakable adore, 
And bless and praise thee evermore. 

And serve thee as thy hosts above : — 

4 Till, added to that heavenly choir. 
We raise our songs of triumph higher, 

And praise thee m a bolder strain ; 
Outsoar the first-bom seraph's flight. 
And sing, with all the saints in hght, 

Thy everlasting love to man. 

469 C. M. 

Blessedness of adoption, 

AND can my heart asph^e so high 
To say,— My Father, God ? 
Lord, at thy feet I fam would he, ^ 

And learn to kiss the rod. 

2 I would submit to all thy will. 
For thou art good and wise ; 

Let each rebelhous thought be still. 
Nor one faint murmm* rise. 

3 Thy love can cheer the darkest gloom, 
And bid me wait serene. 

Till hopes and joys immortal bloom, 
And brighten all the scene. 

4 My Father, God, permit my heaii 
To plead her humble claim, 

And ask the bliss those words impart, 
In my Redeemer's name. 



282 ADOPTION AND ASSURAN-CE. 

470 3d P. M. 4 6s & 2 8s. 

The witness of the Spirit, 

EARNEST of future bliss, 
Thee, Holy Ghost, we hail ; 
Fountain of holiness, 

Whose comforts never fail ; 
The cleansing gift on saints bestow'd. 
The witness of their peace with God. 

2 By thee, on earth, we know 
Ourselves in Christ renew'd; 

Brought by thy grace into 
Tlie family of God ; 
Of his adopting love the seal, 
And faithful teacher of his will. 

3 Great Comforter, descend 
In gentle breathings down; 

Pi-eserve us to the end, 

That no man take our crown; 
Our Guardian still vouchsafe to be, 
Nor suffer us to go from thee. 

471 4th P. M. 886,880. 

The inward witness. 

THOU great mysterious God unknown^ 
Whose love hath gently led me on, 
E'en from my infant days ; 
Mine inmost soul expose to view, 
And tell me if I ever knew 
Thy justifying grace. 

2 If I have only knoAvn thy fear, 
And followed, with a heart sincere, 

Thy drawings from above ; 
Now, now the further grace bestow. 
And let my sprinkled conscience know 

Thy sweet forgiving love. 



ADOPTION AND ASSURANCE. 283 

3 Short of thy love I would not stop, 
A stranger to the Gospel hope, 

The sense of sin forgiven ; 

1 would not, Lord, my soul deceive, 
Without the inward witness live. 

That ante-past of heaven. 

4 If now the witness were in me. 
Would he not testify of thee. 

In Jesus reconciled ? 
And should I not with faith draw ni^h, 
And boldly, Abba, Father, cry, 

And know myself thy child ? 

5 Father, in me reveal thy Son, 
And to my inmost soul make known 

How merciful thou art; 
The secret of thy love reveal, 
And by thy hallNving Spirit dwell 

Forever in my heart. 

472 C. M. 

Delightful assurance, 

SOV'REIGN of all the worlds on high, 
Allow my humble claim; 
Nor while, unworthy, I draw nigh, 
Disdain a Father's name. 

2 My Father, God ! that gracious word 
Dispels my guilty fear ;" 

Not all the notes by angels heard 
Could so delight my ear. 

3 Come, Holy Ghost, thyself impress 
On my expanding heart ; 

And show that in the Father's grace 
I share a fihal part. 

4 Cheer'd by that witness from on high, 
Unwav'ring I believe ; 

And Abba, Father, humbly cry; 
Nor can the sign deceive. 



284 ADOPTION AND ASSURANCE. 

473 L. M. 

The bliss of assurance. 

LORD, liow secure. and blest are they 
Who feel the joys of pardon'd sin ; 
Should storms of wi-ath shake earth and sea, 
Theu' minds have heaven and peace within. 

2 The day ghdes sweetly o'er their heads^ 
Made up of innocence and love ; 

And soft, and silent as the shades, 
Then' nightly minutes gently move. 

3 Quick as their thoughts, their joys come on, 
But fly not half so s^vift away : 

Their souls are ever bright as noon, 
And calm as summer evenings be. 

4 How oft they look to the' heavenly hills, 
Where groves of living pleasure groAV ; 

And longing hopes, and cheerful smiles, 
Sit undistm'b'd upon their brow. 

5 They scorn to seek earth's golden toys, 

' But spend the day, and share the night. 
In numbering o'er the richer joys 

That heaven prepares for their delight. 

474 3d P. M. 4 6s & 2 8s. 

''Abba, Father:' 

ARISE, my soul, arise ; 
Shake ofi* thy guilty fears ; 
The bleeding Sacrifice 
In my behalf appears : 
Before the throne my Sm^ety stands. 
My name is written on his hands. 
8 He ever lives above. 
For me to intercede ; 
His all-redeeming love, 

His precious blood, to pleaa; 
His blood atoned for all our race. 
And sprinkles now the throne of grace. 



ADOPTION AND ASSURANCE. 285 

3 Five bleeding wounds lie bears, 
Received on Calvary ; 

They pour effectual prayers. 
They strongly plead for me : — 
Forgive him, forgive, they cry, 
Nor let that ransom'd sinner die. 

4 The Father hears him pray. 
His dear anointed One: 

He cannot tm*n away 
The presence of his Son : 
His Spirit answers to the blood. 
And tells me I am bom of God. 

5 My God is reconciled ; 

His pard'ning voice I hear : 
He owns me for his child ; 

I can no longer fear: 
With confidence I now draw nigh, 
And Father, Abba, Father, ciy. 

475 L. M. 

Filial confidence and joy. 

GREAT God, indulge my humble claim ; 
Be thou my hope, my joy, my rest ; 
The glories that compose thy name 
Stand all encrafyed to make me blest. 

o o 

2 Thou great and good, thou just and wise. 
Thou art my Father and my God ; 

And I am thine by sacred ties, — 

Thy son, thy sen-ant bought with blood. 

3 With heart and eyes, and lifted hands, 
For thee I long, to thee I look; 

As travellers in thirsty lands 

Pant for the coolinor water-brook. 

o 

4 I '11 lift my hands, I '11 raise my voice, 
While I have breath to pray or praise: 

Tliis work shall make my heart rejoice, 
And fill the remnant of my days. 



286 ADOPTION AND ASSURANCE. 

476 1st P. M. 6 lines 8s. 
The antepofd of heaven. 

VHERE shall my wond'ring soul begin? 
How shall I all to heaven aspire? 
A slave redeemed from death and sin, — 
A brand pluck'd from eternal fire, — 
How shall I equal triumphs raise. 
Or sing my great DeUv'rer's praise? 

2 how shall I the goodness tell, 
Father, which thou to me hast show'd? 

That I, a child of ^Tath and hell, 

I should be call'd a child of God, 
Should know, should feel my sins forgiven, 
Blest with this ante -past of heaven. 

3 And shall I slight my Father's love. 
Or basely fear his gifts to own? 

Unmindful of his favours prove ? 

Shall I, the hallo w'd cross to shun, 
Refuse his righteousness to' impart. 
By hiding it within my heart? 
- 4 No: though the ancient dragon rage. 

And call forth all his hosts to war; 
Though earth's self-righteous sons engage. 

Them and their god alike I dare ; 
Jesus, the sinner's Friend, proclaim; 
Jesus, to sinners still the same. 

477 S. M. 

The revealing and vntne using Spirit 

SPIRIT of faith, come down. 
Reveal the things of God ; 
And make to us the Godhead known. 

And witness with the blood : 
'Tis thine the blood to' apply. 

And give us eyes to see. 
That He who did for sinners die. 
Hath surely died for me. 



ADOPTION AND ASSURANCR 287 

2 No man can truly say- 
That Jesus is the Lord, 

Unless thou take the veil away, 
And breathe the livinor word : 

o 

Then, only then we feel 

Our int'rest in liis blood ; 
And cry, with joy unspeakable, — 

Thou art my Lord, my God ! 

3 that the world might know 
The all-atoning Lamb! 

Spirit of faith, descend and show 

The virtue of his Name : 
The grace which all may find. 

The saving power impart ; 
And testify to all mankind. 

And speak in every heart. 

478 26th P. M. Ys & 6s. 

The comforts, gifts, and graces of the Spirit, 

r\ OD of all consolation, 

VT The Holy Ghost thou art ; 

Thy secret inspiration 

Hath told it to my heart : 
The blessing I inherit, 

Through Jesus' prayer bestow'd. 
The Comforter, the Spirit, 

The true eternal God. 

2 With God the Son and Sa\dour, 

With God the Father one. 
The tokens of his favour 

Are now to man made known ; 
An ante-past of heaven 

Thou dost in me reveal. 
Attest my sins forgiven, 

And my salvation seal. 



288 ADOPTION AND ASSURANCE. 

3 The' indubitable witness 

Of thy OAvn Deity, 
Tliou giv'st my soul its fitness 

Thy glorious face. to see: 
Tliy comforts, gifts, and graces, 

My largest thoughts transcend, 
And challenge endless praises, 

When faith in sight shall end. 

479 1st P. M. 6 lines 8s. 

The signature of divine love, 

VHEN shall I hear the inward voice, 
Which only faithful souls can hear? 
Pardon, and peace, and heavenly joys, 
Attend the promised Comforter: 

come, and righteousness di\ine, 

And Christ, and all with Christ, are miiAe. 

2 that the Comforter would come. 
Nor visit as a transient guest ; 

But fix in me his constant home. 

And keep possession of my breast ; 
And make my soul his loved abode, 
The temple of indweUing God. 

3 Come, Holy Ghost, my heart inspire ; 
Attest that I am bom again ; 

Come, and baptize me now with fire, 
Nor let thy former gifts be vain : 

1 cannot rest in sins foi'given ; 
Where is the earnest of my heaven ? 

4 Where the indubitable seal. 

That ascertains the kingdom mine? 
The powerful stamp I long to feel, — 

The signature of love divine ; 
O shed it in my heart abroad., 
Fulness of love, of heaven, of God ! 



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SANCTIFICATION. 

480 C. M. 

The hope of our high calling. 

VHAT is oui' calling's glorious hope, 
But inward holiness ? 
For this to Jesus I look up ; 
I calmly wait for this. 

2 I wait till he shall touch me clean, — 
Shall life and power impart ; 

Give me the faith that casts out sin. 
And purifies the heart. 

3 This is the dear redeeming grace. 
For every sinner free ; 

Surely it shall on me take place. 
The chief of sinners, — me. 

4 From all iniquity, from all. 
He shall my soul redeem ; 

In Jesus I believe, and shall 
Believe myself to him. 

5 When Jesus makes my heart his home, 
My sin shall all depart ; — 

And, lo! he saith, I quickly come. 
To fill and rule thy heart. 

6 Be it according to thy word ; 
Redeem me from all sin; 

My heart would now receive thee. Lord ; 
Come in, my Lord, come in ! 

481 L. M. 

The will of God. 

HE wills that I should holy be : 
That holiness I long to feel ; 
That full divine conformity 

To all my Savioiu-*s righteous will. 
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2 See, Lord, the travail of thy soul 
AccompUsh'd in the change of mine ; 

And plunge me, every whit made whole. 
In all the depths of love divine. 

3 On thee, God, my soul is stay'd. 
And waits to prove thine utmost will; 

The promise by thy mercy made, 
Thou canst, thou wilt, in me fulfil. 

4 No more I stagger at thy power. 

Or doubt thy truth, which cannot move: 
Hasten the long-expected hour, 

And bless me with thy perfect love. 

482 s. M. 

Thy will he done, 

THIS is thy will, I know. 
That I should holy be ; 
Should let my sins this moment go, 

This moment turn to thee. 
2 might I now embrace 
Thine all-sufficient power. 
And never more to sin give place, 
And never grieve thee more. 

483 . c. M. 

The good pleasure of his will, 

I KNOW that my Redeemer lives, 
And ever prays for me : 
A token of his love he gives, — 
A pledge of liberty. 

2 I find him lifting up my head; 
He brings salvation near ; 

His presence makes me free indeed, 
And he will soon appear. 

3 He wills that I should holy be ! 
What can withstand his wfll? 

The counsel of his grace in me 
He surely shall fulfil. 



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4 Jesus, I hang upon thy word ; 
I steadfastly believe 

Thou wilt return, and claim me. Lord, 
And to thyself receive. 

5 When God is mine, and I am his, 
Of paradise posscss/d, 

1 taste unutterable bUss, 
And everlasting rest. 

484 C. M. 

The believer's rest 

LORD, I beheve a rest remains 
To all thy people known; 
A rest where pure enjoji^ment reigns. 
And thou art loved alone : 

2 A rest where all our soul's desire 
Is fix'd on things above; 

Where fear, and sin, and grief expire. 
Cast out by perfect love. 

3 that I now the rest might know, 
Beheve, and enter in : 

Now, Saviour, now the power bestow. 
And let me cease from sin. 

4 Remove this hardness from my heart; 
This unbehef remove : 

To me the rest of faith impart, — 
The Sabbath of thy love. 

485 1st p. M. 6 lines 8s. 

He saves his people frmn their sins. 

SAVIOUR from sin, I wait to prove 
That Jesus is thy healing name ; 
To lose, when perfected in love. 

Whatever I have, or can, or am : 
I stay me on thy faithful word, — 
The servant shall be as his Lord. 



292 SANCTIFICATIOJSr. 

2 Didst thou not in the flesh appear, 
Sin to condemn, and man to save? 

That perfect love might cast out fear? 
That I thy mind in me might have? 
In hohness show forth thy praise. 
And serve thee all my happy days ? 

3 Didst thou not die that I might live 
No longer to myself, but thee ? 

Might body, soul, and spirit give 

To Him who gave himself for me ? 
Come then, my Master and my God, 
Now take the purchase of thy blood. 

486 c. M. 

He is faithful that hath promised, 

JESUS, the sinner's rest thou art, 
From guilt, and fear, and pain; 
While thou art absent from the heart 
We look for rest in vain. 

2 when wilt thou my Saviour be ? 
when shall I be clean? 

The true eternal Sabbath see, — 
A perfect rest from sin ? 

3 The consolations of thy word 
My soul have long upheld; 

The faithful promise of the Lord 
ShaU surely be fulfill'd. 

4 I look to my incarnate God 
Till he his work begin; 

And wait till his redeeming blood 
Shall cleanse me from all sin. 

6 that I now the voice might hear 
That speaks my sins forgiven ; 

Thy word is pass'd to give me here 
The inward pledge of heaven. 



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6 Thy blood shall over all prevail, 

And sanctify the' undean; 
The grace that saves the soul from hell. 

Will save from present sin. 

487 1st P. M. 6 lines 8s. 

All things possible to tlie believer. 

ALL tilings are possible to him 
That can in Jesus' name beheve : 
Lord, I no more thy truth blaspheme; 
Thy truth I lo\ingly receive ; 

1 can, I do beheve in thee, — 
All things are possible to me. 

2 When thou the work of faith hast wrought, 

1 here shall in thine image shint;, 
Nor sin in deed, or word, or thought. 

Let men exclaim, and fiends repine, 
They cannot break the firm decree, — 
All things are possible to me. 

3 All things are possible to God, — 

To Christ, the power of God in man, — 
To me, when I am all renew'd, — 

When I in Christ am form'd again, 
And witness, from all sin set free, — 
All things are possible to me. 

488 S. M. 

Christy tlie guide atid counsellor, 

JESUS, my truth, my way. 
My sure, unerring light. 
On thee my feeble steps I stay, 
Which thou wilt guide aright. 

2 My wisdom and my guide. 
My counsellor thou art ; 

never let me leave thy side. 
Or from thy paths depart. 



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3 I lift mine eyes to tliee, 
Thou gracious, bleeding Lamb, 

Thau I may now enligliten'd be, 
And never put to shame. 

4 Never will I remove 

Out of thy hands my cause ; 
But rest in thy redeeming love. 
And hang upon thy cross. 

5 make me all Uke thee, 
Before I hence remove ; 

Settle, confirm, and 'stablish me, 
And build me up in love. 

6 Let me thy witness live, 
Wlien sin is all destroy'd ; 

And then my spotless soul receive. 
And take me home to God. 

489 1st P. M. 6 lines 8s. 

His blood cleanseth from all sin. 

PRIS'NERS of hope, lift up your heads; 
The day of liberty draws near ; 
Jesus, who on the serpent treads. 

Shall soon in your behalf appear : 
The Lord will to his temple come ; 
Prepare your hearts to make him room. 

2 Ye all shall find, whom in his word 
Himself hath caused to put your trust, 

The Father of our dying Lord 
Is ever to his promise just; 
Faithful, if Ave our sins confess. 
To cleanse from all unrighteousness. 

3 ye of fearful hearts, be strong ! 
Your downcast eyes and hands lift up ! 

Ye shall not be forgotten long; 

Hope to the end, in Jesus hope ! 
Tell him ye wait his grace to prove ; 
And cannot fail, if God is love. 



SANCTIFICATION. 295 

490 1st p. M. 6 lines Ss. 
The promises are sure, 

PRISONERS of hope, be strong, be bold ; 
Cast off your doubts, disdain to fear ; 
Dare to believe ; on Christ lay hold ; 

Wrestle with Christ in mighty prayei ; 
Tell him, — We will not let thee go. 
Till we thy name, thy nature know. 

2 Hast thou not died to purge our sin. 
And risen, thy death for us to plead? 

To write thy law of love within 

Our hearts, and make us free indeed? 
That we our Eden might regain. 
Thou diedst, and couldst not die in vain. 

3 The promise stands, forever sure. 
And we shall in thine image shine, 

Partakers of a nature pure. 

Holy, angehcal, divine ; 
In Spuit join'd to thee, the Son, 
As thou art with thy Father one. 

491 4th P. M. 886,886. 
The glorious hope. 

GLORIOUS hope of perfect love, 
It hfts me up to things above ; 
It bears on eagles' wings ; 
It gives my ravish'd soul a taste, 
And makes me for some moments feast 
With Jesus' priests and kings. 

2 Rejoicing now in earnest hope, 
I stand, and from the mountain top 

See all the land below : 
Rivers of milk and honey rise. 
And all the fi-uits of paradise 

In endless plenty grow. 



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3 A land of corn, and wine, and oil, 
FavoxQ^'d with God's peculiar smile, 

With every blessing blest; 
There dwells the Lord our Righteousness, 
And keeps his own in perfect peace, 

And everlasting rest. 

4 that I might at once go up ; 
No more on this side Jordan stop, 

But now the land possess; 
Tliis moment end my legal years ; 
Sorrows and sins, and doubts and fears, 

A howling wilderness. 

492 CM. 

A hope full of immortality, 

JOYFUL sound of gospel grace, 
Christ shall in me appear; 
I, even I, shall see his face, — 
I shall be holy here. 

2 The glorious cro^vn of righteousness 
To me reach'd out I view : 

Conqu'ror through him, I soon shall seize. 
And wear it as my due. 

3 The promised land, from Pisgah's top, 
I now exult to see : 

My hope is full, (0 glorious hope !) 
Of immortality. 

4 With me, I know, I feel, thou art ; 
But this cannot suffice, 

Unless thou plantest in my heart 
A constant paradise. 

5 My earth thou wat'rest from on high, 
But make it all a pool : 

Spring up, Well, I ever cry; 
Spring up within my soul. 



^ SANCTIFICATION. 297 

6 Come, ray God, thyself reveal ; 

Fill all this mighty void : 
Thou only canst my spirit fill ; 

Come, O my God, my God. 

493 L- M. 

There remaineth a rest for the people of God. 

COME, thou greater than our heart. 
And make thy faithful mercies known; 
The mind which was in thee impart: 
Thy constant mind in us be shown. 

2 let us by thy cross abide, 
Thee, only thee, resolved to know, 

The Lamb for sinners crucified, 
A world to save from endless wo. 

3 Take us into thy people's rest, 

Ajid we from om- own works shall cease; 
With thy meek Spirit arm our breast, 
And keep our minds in perfect peace. 

4 Jesus, for this we calmly wait ; 
let our eyes behold thee near! 

Hasten to make our heaven complete ; 
Appear, our glorious God, appear! 

494 L. M. 

The promised rest. 

r\ OD of all power, and truth, and grace, 

vT Which shall from age to age endure ; 

Whose word, when heaven and earth shall pass. 

Remains, and stands forever sm-e : — 

2 That I thy mercy may proclaim. 
That all mankind thy truth may see, 

Hallow thy great and glorious name, 
And perfect holiness in me. 

3 Give me a new, a perfect heart. 
From doubt, and fear, and sorrow free ; 

Tlie mind which was in Christ impart. 
And let my spirit cleave to thee. 



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4 that I now, from sin released, 
Thy word may to the utmost prove; 

Enter into the promised rest, — 
The Canaan of thy perfect love. 

495 3dR M. 4 6s<fe2 8s. 

Rejoicing in prospect of the blessing. 

YE ransom'd sinners, hear, 
The prisoners of the Lord ; 
And wait till Christ appear, 

According to his word: 
Rejoice in hope, rejoice with me, 
We shall from all om- sins be free. 

2 In God we put our trust ; 
If we our sins confess, 

Faithful is he and just, 

From all unrighteousness 
To cleanse us all, both you and me: 
We shall from all om^ sins be free. 

3 Surely in us the hope 
Of glory shall appear ; 

Sinners, your heads lift up. 

And see redemption near: 
Again I say. Rejoice with me; 
We shall from all our sins be free. 

4 Who Jesus' sufferings share. 
My fellow-pris'ners now, 

Ye soon the crown shall wear 
On your triumphant brow: 
Rejoice in hope, rejoice Avith me ; 
We shall from all our sins be free. 

5 The word of God is sure, 
And never can remove ; 

We shall in heart be pure, 

Ajid perfected in love: 
Rejoice in hope, rejoice with me; 
We shall from all our sins be free. 



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6 Then let us gladly bring 

Our sacrifice of praise : 
Tiet us give thanks and sing, 

And gloiy in his grace : 
Rejoice in hope, rejoice with me; 
We shall from all our sins be free. 

496 LM. 

The land of rest 

THY loving Spirit, Lord, alone, 
Can lead me forth, and make me free ; 
The bondage break in which I groan. 
And set my heart at liberty. 

2 Now let thy Spirit bring me in. 
And give thy servant to possess 

The land of rest from inbred sin, — 
The land of perfect holiness. 

3 Lord, I believe thy power the same ; 
The same thy truth and grace endure ; 

And in thy blessed hands I am. 
And trust thee for a perfect cure. 

4 Come, Saviour, come, and make me whole ; 
Entirely all my sins remove ; 

To perfect health restore my soul, — 
To perfect holiness and love. 

497 s. M. 

Purity of heart 

BLEST are the pure in lieart, 
For they shall see our God ; 
The secret of the Lord is theirs ; 
Their soul is his abode. 

^ Still to the lowly soul 

He doth himself impart. 
And for his temple and his throne 

Selects the Dure in heart. 



30( SANCTIFICATION. 

498 9tli p. M. 87, 87, 87, 87. 

The new creation, 

LOVE dmne, all love excelling, 
Joy of heaven, to earth come down. 
Fix in us thy humble dwelling ; 

All thy faithful mercies crown. 
Jesus, thou art all compassion, — 
Pure unbounded love thou art ; 
Visit us with thy salvation ; 
Enter every trembUng heart. 

2 Breathe, breathe thy loving Spirit 
Into every troubled breast; 

Let us all in thee inherit ; 

Let us find that second rest. 
Take away our bent to sinning ; 

Alpha and Omega be; 
End of faith, as its beginning, 

Set our hearts at Uberty. 

3 Come, almighty to dehver, 
Let us all thy hfe receive ; 

Suddenly return, and never, 
Never more thy temples leave : 

Thee we would be always blessing, 
Serve thee as thy hosts above. 

Pray, and praise thee without ceasmg, 
Glory in thy perfect love. 

4 Finish then thy new creation ; 
Pure and spotless let us be ; 

Let us see thy great salvation. 

Perfectly restored in thee : 
Changed from glory into glory. 

Till in heaven we take our place, — 
Till we cast our crowns before thee, 

Lost in wonder, love, and praise. 



SANOTIFIOATIOK 301 

499 4th p. M. 886, 886. 
Tice 'pure in heart sJicdl see God, 

SAYIOUR, on me the grace bestow, 
That, with thy children, I may know 
My sins on earth forgiven; 
Give me to prove the kingdom mine, 
And taste, in hohness di\dne. 
The happiness of heaven. 

2 Me with that restless thhst inspu'e, 
That sacred, infinite deshe, 

And feast my hungry heart; 
Less than thyself cannot suffice ; 
My soul for all thy fulness cries, — 

For all thou hast and art. 

3 Jesus, the crowmng grace impart ; 
Bless me with purity of heart, 

That now beholding thee, 

1 soon may ^dew thy open face, 
On all thy glorious beauties gaze. 

And God forever see. 

500 c. M. 

A perfect heart the Redeemer's throne, 

OFOR a heart to praise my God, 
A heart from sin set free ; — 
A heart that always feels thy blood. 
So freely spilt for me : — 

2 A heart resign'd, submissive, meek. 
My great Redeemer's throne ; 

Where only Christ is heard to speak, — 
Where Jesus reigns alone. 

3 for a lowly, contrite heart, 
BeUeving, true, and clean; 

AThich neither life nor death can part 
From Him that dwells within: — 



302 sanctificatiojN-. 

4 A heart in every thought renew'd. 
And full of love divme ; 

Perfect, and right, and pure, and good, 
A copy, Lord, of thine. 

5 Thy nature, gracious Lord, impart; 
Come quickly from above ; 

Write thy new name upon my heart, — 
Thy new, best name of Love. 

501 L. M. 

The new covenant. 

OGOD, most merciful and true, 
Thy nature to my soul impart ; 
'Stablish with me the covenant new. 
And stamp thine image on my heart. 

2 To real holiness restored, 

let me gain my Saviour's mind ; 
And in the knowledge of my Lord, 

Fulness of life eternal find. 

3 Remember, Lord, my sins no more, 
That them I may no more forget ; 

But, sunk in guiltless shame, adore, 
With speechless wonder, at thy feet. 

4 O'erwhelm'd with thy stupendous grace, 

1 shall not in thy presence move ; 
But breathe unutterable praise. 

And rapturous awe, and silent love. 

5 Then every murm'ring thought, and vain. 
Expires, in sweet confusion lost : 

I cannot of my cross complain, — 
I cannot of my goodness boast. 

6 Pardon'd for all that I have done. 
My mouth as in the dust I hide; 

And glory give to God alone, — 
My God in Jesus pacified. 



SANCTIFICATION. 303 

502 5th P. M. 4 lines 7s. 
Perfect submission. 

¥HEN, my Saviour, shall I be 
Perfectly resigned to thee ? 
Poor and vile in my own eyes, 
Only in thy wisdom wise? 

2 Only thee content to know, 
Ignorant of all below ? 

Only guided by thy light? 
Only mighty in thy might? 

3 So I may thy Spirit know, 
Let him as he listeth blow : 
Let the manner be unknown, 
So I may with thee be one : — 

4 Fully in my life express 
All the heights of holiness ; 
Sweetly let my spirit prove. 
All the depths of humble love. 

503 L. M. 

CJirist all in all. 

HOLY, and true, and righteous Lord, 
I wait to prove thy perfect will : 
Be mindful of thy gracious word. 

And stamp me with thy Spirit's seal. 

2 Open my faith's interior eye : 
Display thy glory from above ; 

And all I am shall sink and die. 
Lost in astonishment and love. 

3 Confound, o'erpower me by thy gracCi' 
I would be by myseK abhorr'd ; 

All might, all majesty, all praise. 
All glory, be to Christ my Lord. 

4 Now let me gain perfection's height; 
Now let me into nothing fall. 

As less than nothing in thy sight. 
And feel that Christ is all in all 



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504 1st P. M. 6 lines Sa. 
The prize of our high calling. 

^0 thee, great God of love, I bow, 
And prostrate in thy sight adore : 
By faith I see thee passing now : 

I have, but still I ask for more : 
A glimpse of love cannot suffice ; 
My soul for all thy presence cries. 

2 More favour'd than the saints of old. 
Who now by faith approach to thee. 

Shall all, with open face, behold 
In Christ, the glorious Deity; 
Shall see and put salvation on. 
The nature of thy sinless Son. 

3 This, this is om' high calling's prize; 
Thine image in thy Son I claim ; 

Aoid still to higher glories rise. 

Till, all transform'd, I know thy name, 
And glide to all my heaven above, — 
My highest heaven in Jesus' love. 

505 L. M. 

Mark of perfection. 

WHAT ! never speak one evil word ? 
Or rash, or idle, or unkind? 
how shall I, most gi-acious Lord, 

This mark of true perfection find ? 
2 Thy sinless mind in me reveal; 
Thy Spirit's plenitude impart; 
And all my spotless life shall tell 
The' abundance of a loving heaii;. 

506 L. M. 

Renouncing all for Christ 

rIOME, Saviour, Jesus, from above, 
J Assist me with thy heavenly grace ; 
Empty my heart of earthly love. 
And for thyself prepare the place. 



SANCTIFICATIOK 305 

2 let thy sjicred presence fill, 
And set my longing spirit free ; 

Which pants to have no other will, 
But night and day to feast on thee. 

3 While in this region here below, 
No other good will I pursue : 

I '11 bid this world of noise and show, 
With all its gUtt'iing snares, adieu. 

4 That path with humble speed 1 11 seek. 
In which my Saviour's footsteps shine, 

Nor will I hear, nor will I speak. 
Of any other love but thine. 

5 Henceforth may no profane deUght 
Divide this consecrated soul; 

Possess it thou, who hast the right. 
As Lord and Master of the whole. 

6 Nothing on earth do I desire. 

But thy pure love within my breast; 
This, only this, will I require. 
And freely give up all the rest. 

507 s. M. 

The perfect law of love, 

THE thing my God doth hate. 
That I no more may do, 
Thy creature, Lord, again create, 
And all my soul renew: 

2 My soul shall then, like thine. 
Abhor the thing unclean. 

And, sanctified by love divine. 
Forever cease from sin. 

3 That blessed law of thine, 
Jesus, to me impart; 

The Spirit's law of life divine, 
write it on my heart! 

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306 SANCTIFICATION. 

4 Implant it deep within, 
Whence it may ne'er remove, — 

The law of liberty from sin. 
The perfect law of love. 

5 Thy natm-e be my law, — 
Thy spotless sanctity ; 

And sweetly every moment draw 
My happy soul to thee. 

6 Soul of my soul, remain ! 
Who didst for all fulfil. 

In me, Lord, fulfil again 
Thy heavenly Father's will. 

508 c. M. 

Aspiring after hoVmess. 

THOU God of all-sufficient grace, 
My God in Christ thou art ; 
may I walk before thy face, 

TiU I am pure in heart : 
Until, transformed by faith divine, 

I gain that love unknown; 
And bright in all thine image shine. 

By putting on thy Son. 
2 Now, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, 

In council join again. 
To reimpress thine image, lost 

By frail, apostate man ; 
might I, Lord, thy form express, — 

Begotten from above, — 
Be stamp'd with real holiness. 

And fiird with perfect love ! 

509 . . c. M. 

Cordial obedience. 

COME, Lord, and claim me for thine own. 
Saviour, thy right assert; 
Come, gi-acious Lord, set up thy throne, 
And reign within my heart. 



SANCTIFICATION. 307 

2 The day of tby great power I feel, 
And pant for liberty ; 

1 loathe myself, deny my will, 
And give up all for thee. 

3 I hate my sins, — no longer mine, 
For I renomice them too ; 

My weakness with thy strength I join ; 
Thy strength shall all subdue. 

4 So shall I bless thy pleasing sway, 
And, sitting at thy feet. 

Thy laws with all my heart obey, — 
With all my soul submit. 

510 L- M. 

The light yoke and easy burden. 

OTHAT my load of sin were gone ; 
that I could at last submit 
At Jesus' feet to lay it down — 
To lay my soul at Jesus' feet. 

2 Rest for my soul I long to find : 
Saviour of all, if mine thou art. 

Give me thy meek and lowly mind. 
And stamp thine image on my heart. 

3 Break off the yoke of inbred sin. 
And fully set my spirit free ; 

I cannot rest till pure within, — 
Till I am wholly lost in thee. 

4 Fain would I learn of thee, my God ; 
Thy hght and easy burden prove ; 

The cross all stain'd with hallow'd blood, 
The labour of thy dying love. 

5 I would, but thou must give the power; 
My heart from every sin release ; 

Bring near, bring near the joyful hour, 
And fill me with thy perfect peace. 



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511 4th P. M. 886,886. 
Tlie blessed hope, 

)UT can it be that I should prove 

Forever faithful to thy love, — 
From sin forever cease ? 

1 thank thee for the blessed hope; 
It lifts my drooping spirits up ; 

It gives me back my peace. 

2 In thee, Lord, I put my trust ; 
Mighty, and merciful, and just. 

Thy sacred word is past ; 
And I, who dare thy word beheve. 
Without committing sin shall live, — 

Shall Uve to God at last. 

3 I rest in thine almighty power ; 
The name of Jesus is my tower 

That hides my life above : 
Thou canst, thou vrilt, my helper be ; 
My confidence is all in thee. 

The faithful God of love. 

4 Wherefore, in never-ceasing prayer, 
My soul to thy continual care 

I faithfully commend; 
Assured that thou through life wilt save, 
And show thyself beyond the grave 

My everlasting Friend. 

512 5th P. M. 4 lines U. 

Eejoicing in hope, 

JESUS comes with all his grace, 
Comes to save a fallen race ; 
Object of our glorious hope, 
Jesus comes to lift us up. 
2 Let the living stones cry out ; 
Let the sons of Abrah'm shout : 
Praise we all our lowly King; 
Give him thanks, rejoice, and sing. 



SANCTiFICATION. 309 

3 We are now his la^ f ul right ; 
Walk as children of the Hght ; 
We shall soon obtain the grace, 
Pure in heart, to see his face. 

4 We shall gain oui' calling's prize ; 
After God we all shall rise, 

Fiird with joy, and love, and peace. 
Perfected in holiness. 

5 Let us then rejoice in hope; 
Steadily to Christ look up ; 
Trust to be redeem'd from sin. 
Wait till he appear within. 

6 Hasten, Lord, the perfect day ; 
Let thy every servant say, — 

1 have now obtain'd the power, 
Bom of God, to sin no more. 

513 c. M. 

The garner of God. 

COME, thou omniscient Son of man, 
Display thy sifting power; 
Come, with thy Spirit's winn'wing fan. 
And throughly piu'ge thy floor. 

2 The chaff of sin, the' accursed thing, 
Far from our souls be driven ; 

The wheat into thy gamer bring, 
And lay us up for heaven. 

3 Whate'er offends thy glorious eyes, 
Far from our hearts remove ; 

As dust before the whirlwind flies. 
Disperse it by thy love. 

4 Then let us all thy fulness know, 
From every sin set free; 

Saved to the utmost, saved below, 
And perfected in thee. 



310 SANCTIFICATIOK 

514 20th P. M. 66,77,77. 

The willing captive. 

JESUS, thou art our King ! 
To me thy succour bring ; 
Christ the mighty one art thou ; 

Help for all on thee is laid: 
This the word ; I claim it now ; 
Send me now the promised aid. 

2 High on thy Father's throne, 
look with pity down ! 

Help, help, attend my call; 

Captive lead captivity : 
King of glory. Lord of all, 

Christ, be Lord, be King to me ! 

3 I now would feel thy sway, 
And only thee obey; 

Thee my spirit pants to meet: 

This my one, my ceaseless prayer, — 

Make, make my heart thy seat; 
set up thy kingdom there ! 

4 Triumph and reign in me, 
And spread thy victory ; 

Hell, and death, and sin control; 

Pride, and wrath, and every foe, 
All subdue ; through all my soul, 

Conqu'ring and to conquer go. 

515 . c. M. 

The omnipotence oj cove, 

/^ CD of eternal truth and grace, 

VT Thy faithful promise seal; 

Thy word, thy oatli, to Abraham's race. 

In me, Lord, fulfil. 
2 That mighty faith on me bestow, 

Which cannot ask in vain ; 
Which holds, and will not let thee 4(0^ 

Till I my suit obtain : — 



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S Till thou into my soul inspire 

The perfect love unknown; 
And tell my infinite desu^e, — 

Wliate'er thou wilt, be done. 
4 On me the faith divine bestow, 

Which doth the mountain move ; 
And all my spotless life shall show 

The' omnipotence of love. 

516 5th P. M. 4 lines Ys. 
Perfect peace. 

PRINCE of peace, control my will -^ 
Bid this struggling heart be still ; 
Bid my fears and doubtings cease, — 
Hush my spirit into peace. 

2 Thou hast bought me with thy blood, 
Open'd wide the gate to God: 

Peace I ask — but peace must be. 
Lord, in being one Avith thee. 

3 May thy will, not mine, be done ; 
May thy will and mine be one : 
Chase these doubtings from my heart ; 
Now thy perfect peace impart. 

4 Sa\iour ! at thy feet I fall ; 
Thou my life, my God, my all ! 
Let thy happy servant be 

One forever more with thee ! 

517 CM. 

Till/ commandments are exceeding broad. 

DEEPEN the wound thy hands have made 
In this weak, helpless soul : 
Till mercy, with its balmy aid. 
Descend to make me whole. 
2 Tlie sharpness of thy two-edged sword 

Enable me to' endure ; 
Till bold to say, — My haU'wing Lord 
Hath wi'ought a perfect cure. 



512 SANCTIFICATION. 

3 I see tlie' exceeding broad command, 
Which all contains in one : 

Enlarge my heart to understand 
The mystery unknown. 

4 that, with all thy saints, I might 
By sweet expenence prove 

What is the length, and breadth, and height. 
And depth, of perfect love. 

518 c. M. 

Perfect freedom. 

IF thou impart thyself to me, 
No other good I need : 
If thou, the Son, shalt make me free, - 
I shall be free indeed. 

2 I cannot rest till in thy blood 

1 full redemption have; 

But thou, through whom I come to God, 
Canst to the utmost save. 

3 From sin, — the guilt, the power, the pain, 
Thou wilt redeem my soul : 

Lord, I believe — and not in vain ; 
My faith shall make me whole. 

4 I, too, with thee, shall walk in white ; 
With all thy saints shall prove 

The length and depth, and breadth and height, 
Of everlasting love. 

519 5th P. M. 4 lirm 7s. 

The image of God. 

FATHER of eternal grace, 
Glorify thyself in me ; 
Sweetly beaming in my face 
May the world thine image see 

2 Happy only in thy love. 

Poor, unfriended, or unknown: 
Fix my thoughts on things above ; 
Stay my heart on thee alone. 



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3 To thy gracious will resigned — 
All thy ^y\\\ by me be done ; 

Give me, Lord, the perfect mind 
Of thy well-beloved Son. 

4 Counting gain and glory loss, 
May I tread the path he trod; 

Die with Jesus on the cross, — 
Rise, with him to Uve with God. 

520 s. M. 

Glorious liberty. 

OCOME, and dwell in me, 
Spirit of power within ; 
And bring the glorious hberty 
From sorrow, fear, and sin! 

2 The seed of sin's disease, 
Spuit of health, remove, — 

Spirit of finish'd holiness. 
Spirit of perfect love. 

3 Hasten the joyful day 
Whicli sliall my sins consume ; 

When old things shall be done away. 
And all things new become. 

4 I want the witness, Lord, 
That all I do is light,— 

According to thy will and word, — 
Well pleasing in thy sight. 

5 I ask no higher state ; 
Indulge me but in this. 

And soon or later then translate 
To my eternal bhss. 

521 c. M. 

The perfect rest fronn sin, 

JESUS, my Lord, I cry to thee, 
Against the foe within : 
I want a constant liberty, 
A perfect rest from sin. 



314 SANCTIFICATION. 

2 Thy killing and thy quick'ning power, 
Jesus, in me display; 

The life of nature, from this hour, 
My pride and passion slay. 

3 Then, then, my utmost Saviour, raise 
My soul with saiats above. 

To serve thy will, and spread thy praise. 
And sing thy perfect love. 

522 C. M. 

The exceeding great reward. 

THY name to me, thy nature grant ! 
This, only this be given ! 
Nothing beside my God I want; 
Nothing in earth or heaven. 

2 Come, my Saviour, come away; 
Into my soul descend ; 

No longer from thy creature stay, 
My Author and my End. 

3 The bliss thou hast for me prepared, 
No longer be delayed ; 

Come, my exceeding great Reward, 
For whom I first was made. 

4 Come, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, 
And seal me thine abode; 

Let all I am in thee be lost, 
Let all be lost in God. 

523 . L. M. 

Waiting for the promise. 

JESUS, full of truth and grace ! 
all-atoning Lamb of God! 

1 wait to see thy glorious face ; 

I seek redemption in thy blood. 

2 Thou art the anchor of my hope ; 
The faithful promise I receive : 

Surely thy death shall raise me up. 
For thou hast died that I miMit live. 



SANCTIFICATION 315 

3 Satan, witli all his arts, no more 

Me from the Gospel hope can move ; 

1 shall receive the gracious power. 
And find the pearl of perfect love. 

4 My flesh, which cries, — It cannot be, 
Shall silence keep before the Lord ; 

And earth, and hell, and sin shall flee 
At Jesus* everlasting word. 

524 CM. 

Entire purification. 

FOREVER here my rest shall be, 
Close to thy bleeding side ; 
This all my hope, and all my plea, — 
For me the Saviour died. 

2 My dying Sa\'iour, and my God, 
Fountain for guilt and sin. 

Sprinkle me ever with thy blood, ^ 

And cleanse and keep me clean. 

3 Wash me, and make me thus thine own; 
Wash me, and mine thou art ; 

Wash me, but not my feet alone, — 
My hands, my head, my heart. 

4 The' atonement of thy blood apply, 
Till faith to sight improve ; 

Till hope in fidl fruition die. 
And all my soul be love. 

525 6th P. M. 6 lines 7s 

Entire consecration. 

FATHER, Son, and Holy Ghost, 
One in Three, and Three in One, 
As by the celestial host. 

Let thy will on earth be done ; 
Praise by all to thee be given. 
Glorious Lord of earth and heaven. 



316 S ANCTIFICATION. 

2 Vilest of the sinful race, 
Lo ! I answer to thy call : 

Meanest vessel of thy grace, 
Grace divinely free for all ; 
Lo ! I come to do thy will, 
All thy counsel to fulfil. 

3 If so poor a worm as I 
May to thy great glory hve, 

All my actions sanctify, 

AH my words and thoughts receive; 
Claim me for thy service, claim 
All I have, and all I am 

4 Take my soul and body's powers ; 
Take my mem'iy, mind, and will ; 

All my goods, and all my hours ; 

All I know, and all I feel; 
All I think, or speak, or do ; 
Take my heart, but make it new. 

526 . . . C. M. 

Longhig to oe dissolved in vove, 

JESUS hath died that I might live. 
Might hve to God alone ; 
In him eternal life receive. 
And be in sphit one. 

2 Sa\iour, I thank thee for the grace, 
The gift unspeakable ; 

And wait with arms of faith to' embrace, 
And all thy love to feel. 

3 My soul breaks out in strong desire 
The perfect bliss to prove ; 

My longing heart is all on fire 
To be dissolved in love. 

4 Give me thyself; from every boast, 
From every wish set free ; 

Let all I am in thee be lost, 
But give thyself to me. 



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5 Thy gifts, alas ! cannot sulfice, 

Unless thyself be given ; 
Thy presence makes my paradise, 

And where thou art is heaven. 

527 C. M. 

Saul and body dedicated to the Lord. 

LET Him to whom we now belong, 
His sov'reign right assert ; 
And take up every thankful song. 
And every loving heait. 

2 He justly claims us for his own. 
Who bought us with a price : 

The Christian hves to Chiist alone ; 
To Christ alone he dies. 

3 Jesus, thine own at last receive ; 
Fulfil our hearts' desire ; 

And let us to thy glory hve. 
And in thy cause expire. 

4 Our souls and bodies we resign; 
With joy we render thee 

Our all, — no longer om*s, but thine 
To all eternity. 

528 20th P. M. 66, Y7, 77 

Panting for the fulness of Deity. 

SAYIOUR, the world's and mine, 
Was ever grief Hke thine ? 
Thou my pain, my curse, hast borne ; 

All my sins were laid on thee : 
Help me, Lord, for thee I mourn ; 

Draw me. Saviour, after thee. 

2 To love is all my wish; 

I only Hve for this : 
Grant me. Lord, my heart's desu*e. 

There, by faith, forever dwell: 
This I always will require. 

Thee, and only thee to feel. 



518 SANCTIPIOATION. 

3 Thy power I pant to pro\'e, 
Rooted and fix'd in love ; 

Strengthened by thy Spirit's might, 
Wise to fathom things di^dne, 

What tlic length, and breadth, and height, 
What the depth of love like thine. 

4 Ah ! give me this to know. 
With all thy saints below ; 

Swells my soul to compass thee : 
Pants in thee to live and move; 

Fiird with all the Deity, 

All immersed and lost in love ! 

529 . L. M. 

Thirsting for the fulness of love. 

I THIRST, thou wounded Lamb of God, 
To wash me in thy cleansing blood ; 
To dwell within thy wounds ; then pain 
Is sweet, and life or death is gain. 

2 Take my poor heart, and let it be 
Forever closed to all but thee : 

Seal thou my breast, and let me wear 
That pledge of love forever there. 

3 How blest are they who still abide 
Close sheltered in thy bleeding side ! 
Who thence their hfe and strength denve, 
And by thee move, and in thee live. 

4 What are our works but sin and death, 
Till thou thy quick'ning Sphit breathe ? 
Thou giv'st the power thy grace to move 
O wondrous grace ! boundless love ! 

5 How can it be, thou heavenly King, 
That thou shouldst us to glory bring ; 
Make slaves the partners of thy throne, 
Deck'd with a never-fading crown ? 



SANCTIFICATION. 319 

6 Hence our hearts melt, oui' eyes o'eiflow. 
Our words are lost, nor will we know, 
Nor will we think of aught beside, — 
My Lord, my Love, is crucified. 

530 1st P. M. 6 lines 8s. 
Ardent longings for the blessing. 

COME, thou universal Good, 
Balm of the wounded conscience, come • 
The hungry, dying spuit's food. 

The weary, wand'ring pilgrim's home; 
Haven to take the shipwrecked in. 
My everlasting rest from sin. 

2 Come, my comfort and delight; 

My strength and health, my shield and sun ; 
My boast, and confidence, and might. 

My joy, my glory, and my crown: 
My Gospel hope, my calling's prize; 
My tree of life, my paradise. 

3 The Secret of the Lord thou art. 
The mystery so long unknown ; 

Christ in a pm^e and perfect heart ; 

The name inscribed on the white stone : 
The life divine, the Httle leaven. 
My precious pearl, my present heaven. 

531 c. M. 

Love alone victorious, 

¥HEN shall I see the welcome hour 
That plants my God in me? 
Spirit of health, and life, and power. 
And perfect hberty. 

2 Love only can the conquest win. 

The strength of sin subdue : 
Come, my Sa\dour, cast out sin, 

And foim my soul anew. 



320 SANCTIFICATIOJS'. 

3 No longer then my heart shall moum^ 
Whfle, sanctified by grace, 

1 only for his glory bum. 
And always see his face. 

532 CM. 

Th£ affections crucified, 

JESUS, my life, thyself apply; 
Thy Holy Spirit breathe : 
My \dle affections cmcify; 
Conform me to thy death. 

2 Conqu'ror of hell, and eaiih, and sin. 
Still with the rebel strive : 

Enter my soul and work within, 
And kill and make alive. 

3 More of thy hfe, and more I have. 
As the old Adam dies : 

Bury me. Saviour, m thy grave, 
That I with thee may rise. 

4 Reign in me. Lord; thy foes control. 
Who would not own thy sway ; 

Diffuse thine image through my soul ; 
Shine to the perfect day. 

5 Scatter the last remains of sin, 
And seal me thine abode ; 

O make me glorious all within, — 
A temple built by God ! 

533 1st p. M. 6 lines 8s. 

A lively ,mcrifice to God. 

OGOD, what off'ring shall I give 
To thee, the Lord of earth and skies? 
My spirit, soul, and flesh receive, 

A holy, U\ing sacrifice: 
Small as it is, 'tis all my store , 
More shouldst thou have, if I had more. 



SANCTIFICATIOK 321 

2 N'ow, then, my God, thou hast my soul : 
No longer mine, but tliiiie I am : 

Guard thou thine own, possess it whole ; 
Cheer it with hope, with love inflame. 
Thou hast my sphit ; there display 
Th} glory to the perfect day. 

3 lliou hast my flesh, thy hallow'd shrine. 
Devoted solely to thy will : 

Here let thy Ught forever shine : 

This house still let thy presence fill. 
O Som'ce of life ! live, dwell, and move 
In me, till all my life be love. 

4 Lord, arm me with thy Spirit's might: 
Since I am call'd by thy great name. 

In thee let all my thoughts unite ; 

Of all my works be thou the aim : 
Thy love attend me all my days. 
And my sole business be thy praise. 

534 5th p. M. 4 lines Is. 

Panting for purity. 

HOLY Lamb, who thee receive. 
Who in thee beo^in to hve. 
Day and night they cry to thee, — 
As thou art, so let us be ! 

2 Jesus, see my panting breast ; 
See, I pant in thee to rest ; 
Gladly would I now be clean; 
Cleanse me now from every sin. 

3 Fix, fix my wavVing mind , 
To thy cross my spirit bind : 
Earthly passions far remove ; 
Swallow up my soul in love. 

4 Dust and ashes though we be, 
Full of sin and misery, 

Thme we are, thou Son of God ; 
Take the purchase of thy blood ! 

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322 SAKCTIFICATION. 

535 5th p. M. 4 lines U 

The vaind that was in Christ. 

JESUS, plant and root in me 
All the mind that was in thee ; 
Settled peace I then shall find ; 
Jesus' is a quiet mind. 

2 Anger I no more shall feel, — 
Always even, always still ; 
Meekly on my God reclined ; 
Jesus' is a gentle mind. 

3 I shall suffer and fulfil 

All my Father's gracious will ; 
Be in all alike resigned ; 
Jesus' is a patient mind. 

4 When 'tis deeply rooted here, 
Perfect love shall cast out fear ; 
Fear doth servile spirits bind ; 
Jesus' is a noble mind. 

5 I shall nothing know beside 
Jesus, and him crucified : 
Perfectly to him be join'd ; 
Jesus' is a loving mind. 

6 I shall triimiph evermore ; 
Gratefully my God adore ; 
God so good, so true, so kind ; 
Jesus' is a thankful mind. 

V Lowly, loving, meek, and pure^ 
I shall to the end endure ; 
Be no more to sin inclined ; 
Jesus' is a constant mind. 

8 I shall fully be restored 
To the image of my Lord ; 
Witnessing to all mankind, 
Jesus' is a perfect mind. 



SANCTIFICATION. 323 

536 c. M. 

The refining fire of tlie Holy Spirit. 
TESUS, thine all-victorious love 
J Shed in my heart abroad : 
Then shall my feet no longer rove, 
Rooted and fix'd in God. 

2 that in me the sacred fire 
Might now begin to glow; 

Bum up the dross of base desire, 
And make the mountains flow. 

3 that it now from heaven might fall. 
And all my sins consume : 

Come, Holy Ghost, for thee I call ; 
Spirit of burning, come. 

4 Refining fire, go through my heart; 
Illuminate my soul; 

Scatter thy life through every part, 
And sanctify tlie whole. 

5 My steadfast soul, from falling free. 
Shall then no longer move ; 

While Christ is all the world to me, 
And all my heart is love. 

537 c. M. 

Ardent desires for the fulness of God, 

I ASK the gift of righteousness. 
The sin-subduing power; 
Power to beheve, and go in peace. 
And never grieve thee more. 

2 I ask the blood-bought pardon seal'd, 
The Uberty from sin. 

The grace infused, the love reveal'd, 
The kingdom fix'd within. 

3 Thou hear'st me for salvation pray , 
Thou seest my heart's desire ; 

Made ready in thy powerful day, 
Thy fulness I require. 



324 SANCTIFIOATIOK 

4 My restless soul cries out, oppress'd. 
Impatient to be freed ; 

Nor can I, Lord, nor will I rest, 
Till I am saved indeed. 

5 Thou canst, thou wilt, I dare believe, 
So arm me with thy power. 

That I to sin may never cleave, — 
May never feel it more. 

538 4th P. M. 886, 886. 

Panting after the fulness of love, 

OLOVE divine, how sweet thou art ! 
When shall I find my wilUng heart 
All taken up by thee ? 

1 thirst, I faint, I die to prove 
The greatness of redeeming love, — 

The love of Christ to me. 

2 Stronger his love than death or hell; 
Its riches are unsearchable; 

The first-bom sons of light 
Desu'e in vain its depths to see ; 
They cannot reach the mystery. 

The length, the breadth, the height. 

3 God only knows the love of God ; 
that it now were shed abroad 

In this poor stony heart : 
For love I sigh, for love I pine ; 
This only portion, Lord, be mine ; 

Be mine this better part. 

4 that I could forever sit 
With Mary at the Master's feet ! 

Be this my happy choice; 
My only care, dehght, and bliss, 
My joy, my heaven on earth, be this. 

To hear the Bridegioom's voice. 



SANCTIFICATION. 525 

5 that I could, with favour'd John, 
Rechne my weary head upon 

The dear Redeemer's breast : 
From care, and sin, and sorrow free, 
Give me, Lord, to find in thee 

My everlasting rest. 

539 oth P. M. 4 Urns 7s. 
Cict short the work m righteousness. 

SAVIOUR of the sin-sick soul. 
Give me faith to make me whole ; 
Finish thy great work of grace ; 
Cut it short in lighteousness. 

2 Speak the second time, — Be clean ! 
Take away my inbred sin ; 

Every stumbling-block remove ; 
Cast it out by perfect love. 

3 Nothing less "will I require ; 
Nothing more can I desire : 
None but Christ to me be given ; 
None but Christ in earth or heaven. 

4 that I might now decrease ! 
that all I am might cease ! 
Let me' into nothing fall ; 

Let my Lord be all in all ! 

540 c. M. 

Come^ Lord Jesus. 

JESUS ! at thy feet we wait, 
Till thou shalt bid us rise ; 
Restored to our unsinning state, — 
To love's sweet paradise. 

2 Saviour from sin, we thee receive, 

From all indwellmg sin ; 
Thy blood, we steadfastly beUeve, 

Shall make us throughly clean. 



326 SANCTIFICATIOK 

3 Since thou wouldst have us free from sin, 
And pure as those above ; 

Make haste to bring thy nature in, 
And perfect us in love. 

4 The counsel of thy love fulfil : 
Come quickly, gracious Lord! 

Be it according to thy will. 
According to thy word. 

5 that the perfect grace were given. 
Thy love diffused abroad : 

that our hearts were all a heaven, 
Forever fill'd with God. 

541 c. M. 

Come quickly. 

COME quickly, gracious Lord, and take 
Possession of thine own ; 
My longing heart vouchsafe to make 

Thine everlasting throne. 
2 Assert thy claim, maintain thy right ; 

Come quickly from above ; 
And sink me to perfection's height, — 
The depth of humble love. 

542 . S. M. 

The dominion of sin destroyed, 

PRISONERS of hope, arise. 
And see your Lord appear; 
Lo ! on the wings of love he flies. 
And brings redemption near. 

2 Redemption in his blood, 
He calls you to receive : — 

Look unto me, your pard'ning God; 
Believe^ — he cries, — beheve. 

3 The reconciling word. 
We thankfully embrace ; 

Rejoice in our redeeming Lord, 
And triumph in his grace. 



SANCTIFICATION. 327 

4 We yield to be set free ; 

Thy counsel we approve ; 
Salvation we ascribe to thee. 

And gloiy in thy love. 

6 Our nature shall no more 

O'er us dominion have : 
By faith we apprehend the power 

Which shall forever save. 

543 12th P. M. 76, '76,78,76. 

Speak tite word, 

EVER fainting with desire, 
For thee, Chiist, I call ; 
Thee I restlessly require ; 

I want my God, my all. 
Jesus, dear redeeming Lord, 

I wait thy coming from above ; 
Help me, Saviour, speak the word, 
And perfect me in love. 

2 Wilt thou suffer me to go 
Lamenting all my days? 

Shall I never, never know 

Thy sanctifying grace? 
Wilt thou not thy light afford ? 

The darkness from my soul remove? 
Help me. Saviour, speak the word, 

And perfect me in love. 

3 Thou my hfe, my treasure be. 
My portion here below: 

Nothing would I seek but thee, — 

Thee only would I know; 
My exceeding great reward, — 

My heaven on earth, my heaven above : 
Help me, Saviour, speak the word, 

And perfect me in love. 



528 SANCTIFIOATION. 

4 Grant me now the bliss to feel 

Of those that are in thee : 
Son of God, thyself reveal ; 

Engrave thy Name on me. 
As in heaven, be here adored, 

And let me now the promise prove ; 
Help me, Savionr, speak the word. 

And perfect me in love. 

544 c. M. 

Now is the accepted time. 

NOW, even now, I yield, I yield, 
With all my sins to part; 
Redeemer, speak my pardon seaFd, 
And pmify my heart. 

2 Jesus, now my heart inspire 
With that pure love of thine ; 

Enkindle now the heavenly fire. 
To brighten and refine. 

3 Now purify my faith like gold ; 
The dross of sin remove ; 

Melt down my spirit, Lord, and mould 
Into thy perfect love. 

545 c- M. 

The entire surrender. 

SAVIOUR, welcome to my heart; 
Possess thy humble throne ; 
Bid every rival. Lord, depart. 
And reign, Christ, alone. 

2 The world and Satan I forsake ; 
To thee I all resign ; 

My longing heart, Saviour, take, 
And fill with love divine. 

3 may I never turn aside, 
Nor from thy bosom flee ; 

Let nothing here my heart divide , 
I give it all to thee. 



SANCTIFICATION. 329 

546 c. M. 

The work accomplished. 

COME, my God, the promise seal, 
This momitain, sin, remove ; 
Now in my waiting soul reveal 
The mtue of thy love. 

2 I want thy life, thy purity, 
Thy righteousness, brought in : 

1 ask, desh^e, and trust in thee 
To be redeemed from sin. 

3 For this, as taught by thee, I pray. 
My inbred sin cast out: 

Thou wilt, in me, thy power display ; 
I can no longer doubt. 

4 Let anger, sloth, desire, and pride. 
This moment be subdued ; 

Be cast into the crimson tide 
Of my Redeemer's blood. 

5 Sa\'iour, to thee my soul looks up. 
My present Saviour thou ! 

In all the confidence of hope, 
I claim the blessinor now. 

o 

6 'Tis done ; thou dost this moment save — 
With full salvation bless ; 

Redemption through thy blood I have. 
And spotless love and peace. 

547 L. M. 

The evidence of perfect love. 

QUICKEN'D with our immortal Head, 
Who daily. Lord, ascend with thee ; 
Redeem'd from sin, and free indeed, 
We taste our glorious liberty. 

2 Saved from the fear of hell and death. 
With joy we seek the things above ; 

And all thy saints the spirit breathe 
Of power, sobriety, and love. 



330 SANCTIFICATIOK 

3 Power o'er the world, the flestv and sin. 
We through thy gracious Spirit feel: 

Full power the victory to win. 

And answer all thy righteous will. 

4 Pure love to God thy members find ; 
Pure love to every soul of man; 

And in thy sober, spotless mind. 

Saviour, our heaven on earth we gam. 

548 1st P. M. 6 lines 8s. 

The witness of entire consecration, 

COME, Holy Ghost, all-quick'ning fire, 
Come, and in me delight to rest ; 
Drawn by the lure of strong desire, 

come and consecrate my breast; 
The temple of my soul prepare. 
And fix thy sacred presence there. 

2 If now thine influence I feel. 
If now in thee begin to live. 

Still to my heart thyself reveal ; 
Give me thyself, forever give : 
A point my good, a drop my store. 
Eager I ask, I pant for more. 

3 Eager for thee I ask and pant. 
So strong the principle divine 

Carries me out with sweet constraint. 
Till all my hallow'd soul is thine; 
Plunged m the Godhead's deepest sea. 
And lost in thy immensity. 

4 My peace, my life, my comfort thou. 
My treasm^e and my all thou art; 

True witness of my sonship, now 

Engraving pardon on my heart: 
Seal of my sins in Christ forgiven. 
Earnest of love, and pledge of heaven. 



MEANS OF GRACE. 



PRATER AND INTERCESSION. 

549 L- M. 

Design of prayer. 

PRAYER is appointed to convey 
The blessings God designs to give: 
Long as they Uve should Christians pray; 
They learn to pray when first they live. 

2 If pain afflict, or wrongs oppress ; 
If cares distract, or fears dismay ; 

if guilt deject ; if sin distress ; 

In every case, still watch and pray. 

3 'Tis prayer supports the soul that 's weak : 
Though thought be broken, language lame. 

Pray, if thou canst or canst not speak ; 
But pray with faith in Jesus' name. 

4 Depend on him ; thou canst not fail ; 
Make all thy wants and wishes known; 

Fear not ; his merits must prevail : 
Ask but in faith, it shall be done. 

550 c. M. 

WJiat is prayer ? 

PRAYER is the soul's sincere desire, 
Utter'd or unexpress'd ; 
The motion of a hidden fire 
That trembles in the breast. 

2 Prayer is the burden of a sigh, — 
The fallmg of a tear, — 

'The upward glancing of an eye. 
When none but God is near. 

3 Prayer is the simplest form of speech 
That infant lips can try; 

Prayer, the sublimest strains that reacli 
The Majesty on high. 



332 PRAYER AND INTERCESSION. 

4 Prayer is the Christian's vital breath, 
The Christian's native air; 

His watchword at the gates of death, — 
He enters heaven with prayer. 

5 Pi'ayer is the contrite sinner's voice. 
Returning from his ways ; 

Wliile angels, in then songs, rejoice, 
And cry, — Behold, he prays! 

6 Thou, by whom we come to God, 
The Life, the Truth, the Way,— 

The path of prayer thyself hast trod :— 
Lord, teach us how to pray ! 

551 L. M. 

The mercy-seat 

FROM every stormy wind tliat blows. 
From eveiy swelling tide of woes, 
There is a calm, a sure retreat ; 
'Tis found beneath the mercy-seat. 

2 There is a place, where Jesus sheds 
The oil of gladness on our heads ; 

A place than all besides more sweet, — 
It is the blood-bought mercy-seat. 

3 There is a scene, where spirits blend. 
Where friend holds fellowship with friend; 
Though simder'd far, by faith they meet, 
Around one common mercy- seat. 

4 Ah ! whither could we flee for aid. 
When tempted, desolate, dismay'd ? 
Or how the hosts of hell defeat. 
Had suff'iing saints no mercy-seat? 

5 There, there on eagles' wings we soar. 
And sin and sense molest no more ; 

And heaven comes down our souls to greet, 
While glory crowns the mercv-seat. 



IllAYER AND INTERCESSION. 333 

552 1st P. M. 6 hues 8s. 

Lord J teach us to pray. 

JESUS, thou sovereign Lord of all, — 
The same through one eternal day, — 
Attend thy feeblest follower's call. 

And 0, instruct us how to pray ! 
Pour out the supplicating grace. 
And stir us up to seek thy face. 

2 We cannot think a gracious thought, 
We cannot feel a good desire, 

Till thou, who callest worlds from naught. 

The power into our hearts inspire ; 
And then we in the Spirit groan. 
And then we give thee back thine own. 

3 Come in thy pleading Spirit down 
To us who for thy coming stay ; 

Of all thy gifts we ask but one, — 

We ask the constant power to pray : 
Indulge us. Lord, in this request. 
Thou canst not then deny the rest. 

553 c. M. 

Pray without ceasing, 

SHEPHERD Divine, our wants relieve 
In this our evil day ; 
To all thy tempted followers give 
The power to watch and pray. 

2 Long as our fiery trials last, — 
Long as the cross we bear, — 

let our souls on thee be cast 
In never-ceasing prayer. 

3 Till thou thy perfect love impart; 
Till thou thyself bestow, 

Be this the cry of every heart, — 
I will not let thee go ; — 



334 PRAYER AND INTERCESSION. 

4 I will not let thee go, unless 
Thou tell thy name to me ; 

With all thy great salvation bless. 
And make me all like thee. 

5 Then let me on the mountain-top 
Behold thy open face; 

Where faith in sight is swallowed up. 
And prayer in endless praise. 

554 c. M. 

The Lord's Prayer. 

OUR Father, God, who art in heaven. 
All hallow'd be thy name ; 
Thy kingdom come ; thy will be done 
In heaven and earth the same. 

2 Give us this day our daily bread; 
And as we those forgive 

Who sin against us, so may we 
Forgiving grace receive. 

3 Into temptation lead us not; 
From evil set us free ; 

And thine the kingdom, thine the power. 
And glory, ever be. 

555 s. M. 

The Lord's Prayer, 

OUR heavenly Father, hear 
The prayer we offer now ; 
Thy name be hallow'd far and near; 
To thee all nations bow. 

2 Thy kingdom come ; thy will 
On earth be done in love. 

As saints and seraphim fulfil 
Thy perfect law above. 

3 Our daily bread supply 
While by thy word we hve; 

The guilt of our iniquity 
Forgive, as we forgive. 



PRAYER AND INTERCESSION. 335 

^ From dark temptation's power, 

From Satan's wiles, defend; 
Deliver in the evil hour, 

And guide us to the end. 

5 Thine shall forever be 
Glory and power divine ; 

The sceptre, throne, and majesty. 
Of heaven and earth are thine. 

6 Thus humbly taught to pray 
By thy beloved Son, 

Through him we come to thee, and say, — 
All for his sake be done. 

556 .. s. M. 

The spirit of prayer, 

THE praying spirit breathe ! 
The watching power impart ; 
From all entanglements beneath. 

Call oflf my peaceful heart ; 
My feeble mind sustain, 

By worldly thoughts oppress'd; 
Appear, and bid me turn again 

To my eternal rest. 
2 Swift to my rescue come ; 

Thine own this moment seize ; 
Gather my wand'ring sphit home. 

And keep in perfect peace : 
Suffer'd no more to rove 

O'er all the earth abroad. 
Arrest the pris'ner of thy love, 

ALDi shut me up in God. 

557 5th P. M. 4 lines 7s. 

Encouragements to pray. 

COME, my soul, thy suit prepai'e; 
Jesus loves to answer prayer; 
He himself invites thee near, — 
Bids thee ask him, waits to hear. 



336 PRAYER AND INTEROESSlOlf. 

2 Lord, I come to thee for rest ; 
Take possession of my breast ; 

There, tliy blood-bought right maintain, 
And without a rival reign. 

3 While I am a pilgrim here, 
Let thy love my spirit cheer; 

As my guide, my guard, my friena. 
Lead me to my journey's end. 

4 Show me what I have to do ; 
Every hour my strength renew ; 
Let me live a life of faith, — 
Lei me die thy people's death. 

558 L. M. 

Blessings of prayer, 

¥HAT various hindrances we meet 
In coming to a mercy-seat ; 
Yet who that knows the worth of prayer, 
But wishes to be often there ? 

2 Prayer makes the darkened cloud withdraw; 
Prayer climbs the ladder Jacob saw ; 
Gives exercise to faith and love ; 

Brings every blessing from above. 

3 Restraining prayer, we cease to fight ; 
Prayer keeps the Christian's armour bright ; 
And Satan trembles when he sees 

The weakest saint upon his knees. 

559 s. M. 

The throne of grace, 

BEHOLD the throne of grace ; 
The promise calls us near; 
There Jesits shows a smiling face. 

And waits to answer prayer. 
2 Thine image, Lord, bestow, — 
Thy presence and thy love, — 
That we may serve thee here below. 
And reign with thee above. 



PRAYER AND INTERCESSION. o37 

3 Teach us to live by faith, — 
Conform our wills to thine ; 

Let us victorious be in death, 
And then in gloiy shine. 

4 If thou these blessings give, 
And thou our portion be, 

All worldly joys we '11 gladly leave, 
To find our heaven in thee. 

^60 1st P. M. 6 lines 8s. 

The power of prayer, 

WONDROUS power of faithful prayer ! 
What tongue can tell the' almighty grace ? 
God's hands or bound or open are. 

As Moses or Ehjah prays : 
Let Moses in the Spirit groan, 
And God cries out, — Let me alone ! — 

2 Let me alone, that all my wrath 
May rise, the wicked to consume ; 

While justice hears thy praying faith, 

It cannot seal the sinner's doom : 
My Son is in my servant's prayer. 
And Jesus forces me to spare. 

3 Father, we ask in Jesus' name ; 
In Jesus' power arid spirit pray ; 

Divert thy vengeful thunder's aim ; 

turn thy threat'ning wrath away! 
Our guilt and punishment remove, 
And magnify thy pard'ning love. 

4 Father, regard thy pleading Son ; 
Accept his all-availing prayer ; 

And send a peaceful answer down. 

In honour of our Spokesman there ; 
Whose blood proclaims our sins forgiven, 
And speaks thy rebels up to heaven. 

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338 PRAYER AND INTERCESSION. 

561 s. M. 

The hearer of prayer, 

YE praying souls, rejoice, 
And bless your Father's Name; 
With joy to him lift up your voice. 
And all his love proclaim. 

2 Your mournful cry he hears ; 
He marks your feeblest groan, 

Supplies your wants, dispels your fears. 
And makes his mercy known. 

3 To all his praying saints 
He ever will attend. 

And to their sorrows and complaints 
His ear in mercy bend. 

4 Then let us still go on 
In his appointed ways, 

Rejoicing in his Name alone. 
In prayer and humble praise. 

562 11th P. M. 76, 76, 7*7, 76. 

My help comethfrom the Lord, 

TO the hills I lift mine eyes. 
The everlasting hills ; 
Streaming thence in fresh supplies. 

My soul the Spirit feels : 
Will he not his help aflford ? 

Help, while yet I ask, is given: 
God comes down; the God and Lord 

Who made both earth and heaven. 
2 Faithful soul, pray always; pray, 

And still in God confide ; 
He thy feeble steps shall stay, 

Nor sufiFer thee to slide ; 
Lean on thy Redeemer's breast ; 

He thy quiet spirit keeps ; 
Rest in him, securely rest ; 

Thy watchman never sleeps. 



PRAYER AND INTERCESSION. 331) 

3 Neither sin, nor earth, nor hell, 

Thy Keeper can surprise ; 
Careless slumbers cannot steal 

On his all-seeing eyes; 
He is Israel's sure defence ; 

Israel all his care shall prove ; 
Kept by watchful Providence, 

And ever- waking Love. 

563 nth P. M. 76, '76, VV, Y6. 

Continued. — The Lord is thy Keeper. 

SEE the Lord, thy Keeper, stand 
Omnipotently near: 
Lo ! he holds thee by thy hand. 

And banishes thy fe-ar: 
Shadows with his wings thy head ; 

Guards from all impending haims ; 
Round thee and beneath are spread 
The everlastmg arms. 

2 Christ shall bless thy going out. 

Shall bless thy coming in ; 
Kindly compass thee about, 

Till thou art saved from sin ; 
Like thy spotless Master, thou, 

FiU'd ^\dth wisdom, love, and power; 
Holy, pure, and perfect now, 

Henceforth, and evermore. 

564 '7th P. M. 8 lines Vs. 

The Litany, 

SAVIOUR, when, in dust, to thee 
Low we bow the' adoring knee, — 
When, repentant, to the skies 
Scarce we lift our streaming eyes, — 
0, by all thy pain and wo 
Suffer'd once for man below. 
Bending from thy throne on high, 
Hear us when to thee we cry. 



340 PRAYER AND ENTERCESSIOJ^. 

2 By thine liour of dark despair, 
By tliine agony of prayer ; 

By the cross, the nail, the thorn. 
Piercing spear, and tort'ring scorn ; 
By the gloom that veil'd the skies 
O'er the dreadful sacrifice, — 
Jesus, look with pitying eye ; 
Listen to our humble cry. 

3 By the deep, expiring groan; 
By the sad, sepulchral stone; 
By the vault whose dark abode 
Held in vain the rising God, — 
0, from earth to heaven restored. 
Mighty, re-ascended Lord, 
Saviour, Prince, exalted high. 
Hear, hear, our humble cry. 

565 c. M. 

7'Ay will he done, 

THY presence, Lord, the place shall fill ; 
My heart shall be thy throne ; 
Thy holy, just, and perfect will. 
Shall in my flesh be done. 

2 I thank thee for the present grace. 
And now in hope rejoice ; 

In confidence to see thy face. 
And always hear thy voice. 

3 I have the things I ask of thee ; 
What more shall I require? 

That still my soul may restless be. 
And only thee desire. 

4 Thy only will be done, not mine. 
But make me, Lord, thy home ; 

Come as thou wilt, I that resign. 
But 0, my Jesus, come ! 



PRAYER AND INTERCESSIOX. 341 

566 ... c. M. 

On earth as it is in heaven, 
TESUS, the Life, the Truth, the Way, 
•J In whom I now beheve. 
As taught by thee, in faith I pray. 
Expecting to receive. 

2 Thy will by me on earth be done, 
As by the powers above. 

Who always see thee on thy throne. 
And glory in thy love. 

3 I ask in confidence the grace. 
That I may do thy ^vill, 

As angels, who behold thy face, 
And all thy words fulfil. 

4 Surely I shall, the sinner I, 
Shall serve thee without fear. 

If thou my nature sanctify 
In answer to my prayer. 

567 S. M. 

For a single eye, 

GOD of ahnighty love. 
By whose sufficient grace 

1 lift my heart to things above. 
And humbly seek thy face : 

Til rough Jesus Chiist the Just, 

My faint desires receive, 
And let me in thy goodness ti*ust, 

And to thy glory Uve. 

2 Whatever I say or do. 
Thy glory be my aim ; 

My ofi" 'rings all be offer' d through 

The ever-blessed Name. 
Jesus, my single eye 

Be fix'd on thee alone : 
Thy name be praised on earth, on high, 

Thy will by all be done. 



H42 PRAYER AND INTERCESSION. 

568 ... c. M. 

For victorious faith, 

OFOR a faith that will not shrink, 
Though press'd by every foe, 
That will not tremble on the brink 
Of any earthly wo ; — 

2 That will not murmur or complain 
Beneath the chastening rod, 

But, in the hour of grief or pain, 
Will lean upon its God ; — 

3 A faith that shines more bright and clear 
When tempests rage without ; 

That when in danger knows no fear. 
In darkness feels no doubt; — 

4 That bears, unmoved, the world's dread frown. 
Nor heeds its scornful smile ; 

That seas of trouble cannot drown, 
Or Satan's arts beguile; — 

5 A faith that keeps the narrow way 
Till life's last hour is fled. 

And with a pure and heavenly ray 
Illumes a dying bed. 

6 Lord, give us such a faith as this. 
And then, whate'er may come. 

We '11 taste, e'en here, the hallow'd bliss 
Of an eternal home. 

569 s. M. 

For perfect peace. 

JESUS, my Lord, attend 
Thy feeble creature's cry ; 
- And show thyself the sinner's Friend, 
And set me up on high. 
From hell's oppressive power 
My struggling soul release ; 
And to thy Father's grace restore ; 
And to thy perfect peace. 



PRAYER AND INTERCESSION. 343 

2 Thy blood and righteousness 

I make my only plea ; 
My present and eternal peace 

Are both derived from thee. 
Rivers of life divine 

From thee, their fountain, flow; 
And all who know that love of thine. 

The joy of angels know. 

570 S. M. 

For diligence and watchfulness, 

A CHARGE to keep I have, 
A God to glorify ; 
A never-dying soul to save. 

And fit it for the sky. 
To serve the present age. 
My calling to fulfil, — 
O may it all my powers engage. 
To do my Master's will. 

2 Arm me with jealous care. 

As in thy sight to live ; 
And 0, thy serv^ant. Lord, prepare, 

A strict account to give. 
Help me to watch and pray. 

And on thyself rely. 
Assured, if I my trust betray, 

I shall forever die. 

571 .. . L. M. 

Social dedication to God, 

JESUS, our best beloved friend. 
Draw out our souls in sweet desire; 
Jesus, in love to us descend, — 
Baptize us with thy Spirit's fire. 

2 On thy redeeming name we call. 
Poor and unworthy though we be; 

Pardon and sanctify us all, — 
Let each thy full salvation see. 



344 PRAYER AND INTERCESSION. 

3 Our souls and bodies we resign. 
To fear and follow thy commands ; 

take our hearts, oiu* hearts are thine ; 
Accept the service of our hands. 

4 Firm, faithful, watching unto prayer. 
Our Master's voice will we obey ; 

Toil in the vineyard here, and bear 
The heat and burden of the day. 

5 Yet, Lord, for us a resting-place. 

In heaven, at thy right hand, prepare; 
And till we see thee face to face. 
Be all our conversation there. 

572 L. M. 

For iliefire of divine love. 

OTHOU who earnest from above. 
The pure celestial fire to' impart. 
Kindle a flame of sacred love. 
On the mean altar of my heart. 

2 There let it for thy glory burn. 
With inextinguishable blaze ; 

And trembling to its Source return. 
In humble love and fervent praise. 

3 Jesus, confirm my heart's desb:e, 

To %York, and speak, and think for thee; 
Still let me guard the holy fire. 
And still stu- up thy gift in me. 

4 Ready for all thy perfect will. 
My acts of faith and love repeat. 

Till death thy endless mercies seal. 
And make the sacrifice complete. 

573 L. M. 

For the SpiriCs guidance. 

JESUS, my Saviour, Brother, Friend, 
On whom I cast my every care. 
On whom for all things I depend,— 
Inspire, and then accept, my prayer. 



PRAYER AND INTERCESSIOK 345 

2 If I have tasted of thy grace, — 
The grace that sure salvation brings ; 

If with me now thy Spb'it stays, 

And, hov'ring, hides me in his wings ; 

3 Still let him with my weakness stay. 
Nor for a moment's space depart ; 

Evil and danger turn away, 

And keep, till he renews, my heart. 

4 If to the right or left I stray. 

His voice behind me may I hear, — 

Return, and walk in Christ, thy way; 

Fly back to Christ, for sin is near ! 

574 S. M. 

For fervent zeal. 

JESUS, I fain would find 
Thy zeal for God in me ; 
Thy yearning pity for mankind, — 

Thy burning charity. 
2 In me thy Spirit dwell ; 

In me thy bowels move ; 
So shall the fervour of my zeal 
Be the pure flame of love. 

575 4th P. M. 886,886. 

For power over temptation. 

HELP, Lord, to whom for help I fly, 
And still my tempted soul stand by 

Tliroughout the evil day ; 
The sacred watchfulness impart, 
And keep the issues of my heart, 

And stir me up to pray. 
2 My soul with thy whole armom' arm; 
In each approach of sin, alarm. 

And show the danger near : 
Surround, sustain, and strengthen me, 
And fill Avith godly jealousy 

And sanctifying fear. 



346 PRAYEH AND INTERCESSION. 

3 Whene'er my careless hands hang down, 
let me see thy gathering frown, 

And feel thy warning eye; 
And starting, cry, from ruin's brink, — 
Save, Jesus, or I yield, I sink ; 

save me, or I die. 

4 If near the pit I rashly stray, 
Before I wholly fall away, 

Tlie keen conviction dart ; 
Recall me by that pitying look, — 
That kind, upbraiding glance, which broke 

Unfaithful Peter's heart. 

5 In me thine utmost mercy show, 
And make me, like thyself below. 

Unblamable in grace ; 
Ready prepared and fitted here. 
By perfect hoKness, to' appear 

Before thy glorious face. 

576 S. M. 

For entire consecration. 

JESUS, my strength, my hope. 
On thee I cast my care ; 
With humble confidence look up. 

And know thou hear'st my prayer. 
Give me on thee to wait. 

Till I can all things do ; 
On thee, — almighty to create. 
Almighty to renew. 

2 I want a sober mind, 

A self-renouncing will. 
That tramples down, and casts behind^ 

The baits of pleasing ill : 
A soul inured to pain. 

To hardship, grief, and loss ; 
Bold to take up, firm to sustain. 

The consecrated cross. 



PRAYER AND INTERCESSION. 347 

3 I want a godly fear, 

A quick discerning eye. 
That looks to thee when sin is near, 

And sees the tempter fly : 
A spirit still prepared, 

And arm'd with jealous care; 
Forever standing on its guard, 

And watching unto prayer. 

577 S. M. . 

For perfect submission. 

I WANT a heart to pray, — 
To pray, and never cease; 
Never to murmur at thy stay, 
Or wish my suflf 'rings less. 
This blessing, above all, — 

Always to pray, — I want; 
Out of the deep on thee to call, 
And never, never faint. 

2 I want a true regard, 
A single, steady aim, — 

Unmoved by threat'ning or reward. 

To thee and thy great name; 
A jealous, just concern. 

For thine immortal praise ; 
A pure desire that all may learn 

And glorify thy grace. 

3 I rest upon thy word, — 
The promise is for me ; 

My succour and salvation. Lord, 

Shall surely come from thee : 
But let me stiU abide, 

Nor from my hope remove. 
Till thou my patient spirit guide 

Into thy perfect love. 



348 fRAYER AND INTERCESSION. 

578 L. M. 

For sustaining grace. 

MY hope, my all, my Saviour thou; 
To thee, lo, now my soul I bow; 
I feel the bliss thy wounds impart, — 

1 find thee, Saviour, in my heart. 

2 Be thou my strength, — be thou my way ; 
Protect me through my life's short day : 

In all my acts may wisdom guide, 
And keep me. Saviour, near thy side. 

3 In fierce temptation's darkest hour, 
Save me from sin and Satan's power; 
Tear every idol from thy throne, 
And reign, my Saviour, reign alone. 

4 My suff'ring time shall soon be o'er; 
Then shall I sigh and weep no more: 
My ransom'd soul shall soar away. 

To sing thy praise in endless day. 

579 . c. M. 

For a tender conscience, 

I WANT a principle within, 
Of jealous, godly fear ; 
A sensibility of sin, — 
A pain to feel it near : 

1 want the first approach to feel. 

Of pride, or fond desire ; 
To catch the wand'ring of my will. 
And quench the kindling fire. 

2 From thee that I no more may part. 
No more thy goodness grieve. 

The filial awe, the fleshly heart. 
The tender conscience, give. 

Quick as the apple of an eye, 
God, my conscience make; 

Awake my soul when sin is nigh, 
And keep it still awake. 



PRAYER AND INTERCESSION. 349 

3 If to the right or left I stray. 

That moment, Lord, reprove ; 
And let me weep my life away. 

For having grieved thy love. 
may the least omission pain 

My well-instructed soul. 
And drive me to the blood again, 

Which makes the woimded whole. 

580 . . .s. M. 

For watchfulness and circumspection. 

BID me of men beware. 
And to my ways take heed ; 
Discern their every secret snare, 
And circumspectly tread. 

2 may I calmly wait 
Thy succours from above ; 

And stand against their open hate, 
And well-dissembled love. 

3 My spirit. Lord, alann. 
When men and devils join: 

'Gainst all the powers of Satan arm. 
In panoply divine. 

4 may I set my face. 
His onsets to repel ; 

Quench all his fiery darts, and chase 
The fiend to his own hell. 

5 But, above all, afraid 
Of my own bosom foe, 

Still let me seek to thee for aid, — 
To thee my weakness show : 

6 Hang on thy arm alone. 
With self-distrusting care, 

And deeply m the Spirit groan 
The never-ceasing prayer. 



350 PRAYER AND INTERCESSION. 

581 19th P. M. 664,0664. 

For the. Saviour* s guidance, 

MY faith looks up to thee. 
Thou Lamb of Calvary . 
Saviour divine, 
Now hear me wliile I pray ; 
Take all my guilt away ; 
let me, from this day. 
Be wholly thine. 

2 May thy rich grace impart 
Strength to my fainting heart; 

My zeal inspire; 
As thou hast died for me, 
may my love to thee 
Pure, warm, and changeless be — 

A living fire. 

3 While life's dark maze I tread, 
And griefs around me spread. 

Be thou my Guide ; 
Bid darkness turn to day ; 
Wipe sorrow's tears away. 
Nor let me ever stray 

From thee aside. 

4 When ends life's transient dream ; 
When death's cold, sullen stream 

Shall o'er me roll ; 
Blest Saviour, then, in love. 
Fear and distress remove ; 
0, bear me safe above, — 

A ransom'd soul. 

582 5th P. M. 4 liThes U 
For humility and protection, 

GOD of Love, who hearest prayer. 
Kindly for thy people care, 
Who on thee alone depend: 
Love us, save us to the end. 



PRAYER AND INTERCESSION. 351 

2 Save us, in the prosp'rous hour, 
From the flattering tempter's power ; 
From his unsuspected wiles, — 
From the world's pernicious smiles. 

3 Save us from the great and wise, 
Till they sink in their own eyes, 
Tamely to thy yoke submit. 

Lay their honour at thy feet. 

4 Never let the world break in ; 
Fix a mighty gulf between ; 
Keep us little and unknown. 
Prized and loved by God alone. 

5 Let us still to thee look up, — 
Thee, thy Israel's strength and hope ; 
Nothing know, or seek, beside 
Jesus, and him crucified. 

583 . L- M. 

For lowliness and purity. 

JESUS, in whom the Godhead's rays 
Beam forth with mildest majesty ; 

1 see thee full of ti*uth and grace, 
And come for all I want to thee. 

2 Save me from pride, — ^the plague expel; 
Jesus, thine humble self impart : 

let thy mind within me dwell ; 
give me lowliness of heart. 

3 Enter thyself, and cast out sin; 
Thy spotless purity bestow: 

Touch me, and make the leper clean; 
Wash me, and I am white as snow. 

4 Sprinkle me. Saviour, with thy blood. 
And all thy gentleness is mine ; 

And plimge me in the purple flood, 
Till all I am is lost in tliine. 



352 PRAYER AND IKTEROESSION. 

584 L. M. 

For constant devotedness. 

LORD, fill me with an liumblb /ear ; 
My utter helplessness reveal ; 
Satan and sin are always near, — 
Thee may I always nearer feel. 

2 that to thee my constant mind 
Might with an even flame aspu-e ; 

Pride in its earliest motions find, 
And mark the risings of desire. 

3 that my tender soul might fly 
The first abhoiT'd approach of ill ; 

Quick as the apple of an eye. 
The slightest touch of sin to feel. 

4 Till thou anew my soul create. 

Still may I strive, and watch, and pray 
Humbly and confidently wait. 
And long to see the perfect day. 

585 c. M. 

For tkejtdness of God's grace. 

JEHOVAH, God the Father, bless, 

J And thine own work defend; 

With mercy's outstretch'd arms embrace. 

And keep us to the end. 
Preserve the creatures of thy love 

By providential care: 
Conducted to the realms above. 

To sing thy goodness there. 
2 Jehovah, God the Son, reveal 

The brightness of thy face ; 
And all thy pardon'd people fill 

With plenitude of grace. 
Shine forth with all the Deity, 

Which dwells in thee alone ; 
And lift us up thy face to see. 

On thy eternal tlirone. 



I'RAYER^AJSTD DSTTERCESSION. 353 

3 Jehovah, God the Spmt, shine, 

Father and Son to show : 
With bhss ineffable, divine, 

Our ravish'd hearts overflow. 
Sure earnest of that happiness 

Which human hope transcends, 
Be thou our everlasting peace, 

When grace in glory ends. 

586 . LM. 

For the. Saviour's protection, 

JESUS, I fain would walk in thee, — 
From nature's every path retreat; 
Thou art my Way,— my Leader be. 

And set upon the rock my feet. 
2 Uphold me, Sa^dour, or I fall ; 

reach me out thy gracious hand : 
Only on thee for help I call, — 
Only by faith in thee I stand. 

587 '7th P. M. S lines n^ 

For reviving grace. 

LIGHT of life, — seraphic fire, — 
Love divine, — thyself impart : 
Every fainting soul inspire; 

Shine in every drooping heart: 
Every mournful sinner cheer ; 

Scatter all our guilty gloom : 
Son of God, appear ! appear ! — 

To thy human temples come. 
2 Come in this accepted hour ; 

Bring thy heavenly kingdom m ; 
Fill . us with thy glorious power, 

Rooting out tlie seeds of sin : 
Nothing more can we require, — 

We will covet nothing less ; 
Be thou all our hearts' desire, — 

All om* joy, and all our peace. 
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354 PRAYER AND INTElfcESSION. 

588 s. M. 

For a revival, 

OLORD, thy work revive, 
In Zion's gloomy hour, 
And let our dying graces live 
By thy restoiing power. 

2 let thy chosen few. 
Awake to earnest prayer; 

Their covenant again renew, 
And walk in filial fear. 

3 Thy Spirit then will speak 
Through lips of humble clay, 

Till hearts of adamant shall break, — 
Till rebels shall obey. 

4 Now lend thy gracious ear; 
Now listen to our cry : 

come, and bring salvation near ; 
Our souls on thee rely. 

589 . . I-M. 

For mourners in Zion, 

OLET the pris'ner's mournful cries 
As incense in thy sight appear : 
Their humble wailings pierce the skies. 
If haply they may feel thee near. 

2 The captive exiles make their moans, 
From sin impatient to be free : 

CaU home, call home thy banish'd ones; 
Lead captive their captivity. 

3 Show them the blood that bought their peace^ 
The anchor of their steadfast hope, 

And bid their guilty terrors cease, 
And bring the ransom'd pris'ners up. 

4 Out of the deep regard their cries ; 
The fallen raise, the mourners cheer: 

Sun of righteousness, arise, 

And scatter all then- doubt and fear. 



PRAYER AND INTERCESSION 355 

5 Pity the day of feeble things ; 

gather every halting soul; 
And drop salvation from thy wings, 

And make the contrite sinner whole. 

590 L- M. 

For the latnhs of the flock, 

AUTHOR of faith, we seek thy face 
For all who feel thy work begmi; 
Confirm, and strengthen them in grace, 
And bring thy feeblest children on. 

2 Thou seest their wants, thou know'st their names ; 
Be mindful of thy youngest care ; 

Be tender of the new-bom lambs, 
And gently in thy bosom bear. 

3 In safety lead thy Uttle flock, — 
From hell, the world, and sin, secm^e ; 

And set then- feet upon the rock. 
And make in thee their goings sure. 

591 L. M. 

For the peace of Jerusalem, 

THOU, our Saviour, Brother, Friend, 
Behold a cloud of incense rise ; 
The prayers of saints to heaven ascend. 
Grateful, accepted sacrifice. 

2 Regard our prayers for Zion's peace ; 
Shed in our hearts thy love abroad ; 

Thy gifts abundantly increase; 
Enlarge, and fill us all with God. 

3 Before thy sheep, great Shepherd, go, 
And guide into thy perfect will ; 

Cause us thy hallow'd name to know; 
The work of faith in us fulfil. 

4 Help us to make our calling sure ; 
let us all be saints indeed. 

And pure, as thou thyself art pure,- 
Confoim'd in all thinsfs to our Head. 







556 PRATER AND INTERCESSION. 

5 Take the dear purchase of thy blood ; — 
Thy blood shall wash us white as snow: 

Present us sanctified to God, 
And perfected in love below. 

592 c. M. 

For the coming of Christ's kingdom. 

FATHER of me and all mankind, 
And all the hosts above. 
Let every understanding mind 
Unite to praise thy love. 

2 To know thy nature and thy name, 
One God in persons Three; 

Ajid glorify the great I AM, 
Through all eternity. 

3 Thy kingdom come, with power and grace, 
To every heart of man ; 

Thy peace, and joy, and righteousness, 
In all our bosoms reign. 

4 The righteousness that never ends. 
But makes an end of sin — 

The joy that human thought transcends — 
Into our souls biing in. 

593 0. M. 

For the waters of salvation. 

FOUNTAIN of life, to all below 
Let thy salvation roll ; 
Water, replenish, and o'ei-flow 
Every believing soul. 

2 Into that happy number. Lord, 
Us weary sinners take ; 

Jesus, fulfil thy gracious word, 
For thine own mercy's sake. 

3 Turn back our nature's rapid tide, 
And we shall flow to thee, 

While down the stream of time we glide 
To our eternity. 



FAMILY DEVOTION. 357 

4 The well of life to us thou art, — 
Of joy, the swelling flood ; 

Wafted by thee, Avith ^^olliiig heart, 
We swift return to God. 

5 We soon shall reach the boundless sea; 
Into thy fulness fall; 

Be lost and swallow'd up in thee, — 
Our God, our All in All. 



FAMILY DEVOTION. 

594 L. M. 

Rejoicing at the return of the Sabbath. 

MY opening eyes with rapture see 
The dawn of this retui'ning day ; 
My thoughts, God, ascend to thee, 
While thus my early vows I pay. 

2 I yield my heart to thee alone. 
Nor would receive another guest : 

Eternal King, erect thy throne, 

And reign sole monarch in my breast. 

3 bid this trifling world retne. 

And drive each carnal thought away; 
Nor let me feel one vain deshe. 

One sinful thought, through all the tiay. 

4 Then, to thy courts when I repair. 
My soul shall rise on joyful wing, — 

The wonders of thy love declare. 

And join the strains which angels sing. 

595 c. M. 

Sunday morning: Preparing for pvhlic worship, 

LORD, in the morning thou shalt hear 
My voice ascending high: 
To thee will I du-ect my prayer, — 
To thee lift up mine eye : — 



358 FAMILY DEVOTIO]Sr. 

2 Up to the hills where Christ is gone. 
To plead for all his saints ; 

Presenting, at the Father's throne, 
Our songs and our complaints. 

3 Thou art a God before wliose sight 
The A\dcked shall not stand ; 

Sinners shall ne'er be thy delight, 
Nor dwell at thy right hand. 

4 Now to thy house will I resort. 
To taste thy mercies there ; 

1 Avill frequent thy holy court, 
And worship in thy fear. 

5 may thy Spirit guide my feet 
In ways of righteousness ; 

Make every path of duty straight. 
And plain before my face. 

596 L. M. 

Morning : Adoration. 

ARISE, my soul, with rapture rise, 
And, fill'd with love and fear, adore 
The awful Sov'reign of the skies. 

Whose mercy lends thee one day more, 

2 And may this day, indulgent Power, 
Not idly pass, nor finiitless be ; 

But may each swiftly passing horn- 
Still nearer bring my soul to thee. 

597 L. M. 

Morning : Sacrifice of praise and prayer. 

AWAKJE, my soul, and with the sun 
Thy daily stage of duty run ; 
Shake off dull sloth, and joyful rise 
To pay thy morning sacrifice. 
2 Wake, and lift up thyself, my heart. 
And with the angels bear thy part. 
Who all night long unwearied sing 
High praises to the' eternal King. 



FAMILY DEVOTION. 359 

3 All praise to Thee, who safe hast kept, 
And hast refreshed me while I slept : 
Grant, Lord, when I from death shall wake, 

1 may of endless life partake. 

4 Lord, I my vows to thee renew; 
Scatter my sins as morning dew; 

Guard my first springs of thought and will. 
And with thyself my spirit fill. 

5 Direct, control, suggest, this day, 
All I design, or do, or say ; 

That all my powers, with all their might, 
In thy sole glory may unite. 

598 L. M. 

Morning : The Lord is my portion. 

OGOD, my God, my all thou art : 
Ere shines the dawn of rising day, 
Thy sov'reign hght within my heart. 
Thy all-enhv'ning power, display. 

2 For thee my thirsty soul doth pant. 
While in this desert land I live; 

And, hungry as I am, and faint. 
Thy love alone can comfort give. 

3 In a dry land, behold, I place 
My whole desire on thee, Lord ; 

And more I joy to gain thy grace. 
Than all earth's treasures can afford. 

4 More dear than life itself, thy love 

My heart and tongue shall still employ ; 
And to declare thy praise will prove 
My peace, my glory, and my joy. 

5 In blessing thee with grateful songs, 
My happy life shall glide away ; 

The praise that to thy Name belongs. 
Hourly, with lifted hands, I '11 pay. 



360 FAMILY DEVOTION. 

599 c. M. 

Morning : The Sun of righteousness. 

AWAKE, my soul, to meet the day ; 
Unfold thy drowsy eyes, 
And burst the heavy chain that binds 
Thine active faculties. 

2 God's guardian shield was roimd me spread 
In my defenceless sleep : 

Let Him have all my waking hours 
Who doth my slumbers keep. 

3 Pardon, God, my former sloth. 
And arm my soul with grace ; 

As, rising, now I seal my vows 
To prosecute thy ways. 

4 Bright Sun of righteousness, arise ; 
Thy radiant beams display ; 

And guide my dark, bewilder'd soul 
To everlasting day. 

600 c. M. 

Morning : Self-consecration. 

ONCE more, my soul, the rising day 
Salutes thy waking eyes ; 
Once more, my voice, thy tribute pay 
To Him that rules the skies. 

2 Night unto night his Name repeats. 
The day renews the sound; 

Wide as the heavens on which he sits, 
To turn the seasons round. 

3 'Tis he supports my mortal frame ; 
My tongue shall speak his praise; 

My sins might rouse his wrath to flame. 
But yet his wrath delays. 

4 God, let all my hours be thine. 
Whilst I enjoy the light; 

Then shall my sun in smiles decline, 
And bring a peaceful night. 



FAMILY DEVOTION. 361 

601 c. M. 

Morning : Thankfvlness and trust 

GIVER and Guardian of our slec/:. 
To praise thy name we v.^ake : 
Still, Lord, thy helpless servants keep^ 
For thine own mercy's sake. 

2 The blessing of another day 
We thankfully receive: 

may we only thee obey, 
And to thy glory live. 

3 Upon us lay thy mighty hand , 
Our words and thoughts restrain ; 

And bow our souls to thy command, 
Nor let our faith be vain. 

4 Prisoners of hope, we wait the hour 
Which shall salvation bring: 

When all we are shall own thy power. 
And call our Jesus, King. 

602 . . . s. M. 

Morning : Tribute of praise. 



s 



EE how the morning sun 



Pursues his shining way ; 
And wide proclaims his Maker's praise, 
With every bright'ning ray. 

2 Thus would my rising soul 
Its heavenly Parent sing. 

And to its great Original 
The humble tribute brinsf. 

3 Serene I laid me down, 
Beneath his guardian care ; 

I slept, and I awoke, and found 
My kind Preserver near. 

4 My life I would anew 
Devote, Lord, to thee; 

And in thy service I would spend 
A long eternity. 



362 FAMILY DEVOTION. 

603 s. M. 

Morning : The day-star frcyin on high, 

¥E lift our hearts to thee, 
Day-star from on high ! 
The sun itself is but thy shade, 
Yet cheers both earth and sky. 

2 let thy rising beams 
The night of sin disperse, — 

The mists of error and of vice. 
Which shade the universe. 

3 How beauteous nature now ; 
How dark and sad before ; 

With joy we view the pleasing change. 
And nature's God adore. 

4 may no gloomy crime 
Pollute the rising day ; 

Or Jesus' blood, like evening dew. 
Wash all the stains away. 

5 May we this life improve. 
To mourn for errors past; 

And Uve tliis short, revolving day 
As if it were our last. 

604 c. M. 

Morning : Grateful praise, 

LORD of my life, may thy praise 
Employ my noblest powers, 
Whose goodness lengthens out my days, 
And fills the circling hours. 

2 While many spent the night in sighs, 
And restless pains and woes. 

In gentle sleep I closed my eyes. 
And undisturb'd repose. 

3 O let the same almighty care 
My waking hours attend ; 

From every danger, every snare. 
My heedless steps defend. 



FAMILY DEVOTION. 3b8 

4 Smile on my minutes as they loll, 

And guide my future days ; 
And let thy goodness fill my soul 

With gratitude and praise. 

605 . . c. M. 

Morning : Confident security, 

ON thee, each morning, my God, 
My waking thoughts attend ; 
In thee are founded all my hopes, — 
In thee my wishes end. 

2 My soul, in pleasing wonder lost. 
Thy boundless love surveys ; 

And, fired with grateful zeal, prepares 
A sacrifice of praise. 

3 God leads me through the maze of sleep, 
And brings me safe to light; 

And, with the same paternal care, 
Conducts my steps till night. 

4 When evening slumbers press mine eyes, 
With his protection blest, 

In peace and safety I commit 
My wearied limbs to rest, 

5 My spirit, in his hand secure. 
Fears no approaching ill ; 

For, whether waking or asleep. 
The Lord is with me still. 

606 L. M. 

Morning and evening mercies, 

MY God, how endless is thy love ; 
Thy gifts are every evening new ; 
And morning mercies from above, 
Gently descend like early dew. 
2 Thou spread'st the curtains of the night. 

Great Guardian of my sleeping hours ; 
Thy sovereign word restores the hght. 
And quickens all my drowsy powei*s. 



364 FAMILY DEVOTION. 

3 1 yield myself to thy command ; 

To thee devote my nights and days; 
Perpetual blessings from thy hand 

Demand perpetual songs of praise. 

607 . L. M. 

Evening: Trusting in God. 
riLORY to thee, my God, this night, 
VT For all the blessings of the light : 
Keep me, O keep me. King of kings. 
Beneath the shadow of thy wings. 

2 Forgive me, Lord, for thy dear Son, 
The ill which I this day have done ; 
That with the world, myself, and thee, 
I, ere I sleep, at peace may be. 

3 Teach me to live, that I may dread 
The grave as httle as my bed; 
Teach me to die, that so I may 

Rise glorious at the judgment-day. 

4 O let my soul on thee repose. 

And may sweet sleep mine eyelids dose; 
Sleep, which shall me more vigorous make, 
To serve my God, when I awake. 

5 Lord, let my soul forever share 
The bhss of thy paternal care : 

'Tis heaven on earth, 'tis heaven above. 
To see thy face, and sing thy love. 

608 5th P. M. 4 lines Is. 

Evening: Commicnion with God. 

SOFTLY now the hght of day 
Fades upon om* sight away; 
Free from care, from labour free. 
Lord, we would commune with thee. 
2 Soon from us the light of day 
Shall forever pass away; 
Then, from sin and sorrow free. 
Take us. Lord, to dwell with thee. 



FAMILY DEVOTION. 365 

609 9th p. M. 87, 87. 
Evening : Conjidence in God's protection. 

SAYIOUR, breathe an evening blessing, 
Ere repose our sphits seal ; 
Sin and want we come confessing ; 
Thou canst save and thou canst heal. 

2 Though destruction walk around us. 
Though the arrows past us fly, 

Angel guards from thee surround us ; 
We are safe, if thou art nigh. 

3 Though the night be dark and dreary, 
Darkness cannot hide from thee ; 

Thou art He who, never weary, 
Watchest where thy people be. 

4 Should swift death this night overtake us, 
Ajid command us to the tomb. 

May the mom in heaven awake us. 
Clad in bright, eternal bloom. 

610 c. M. 

Evening : Gratitude and trust. 
r\ REAT God, to thee my evening song 
vT With gratitude I raise ; 
O let thy mercy tune my tongue. 
And fill my heart with praise. 

2 My days, unclouded as they pass. 
Aid every fleeting hour. 

Are monuments of wondrous grace, — 
Of mercy, love, and power. 

3 Thy love and power, celestial guard, 
Preserve me from all harm: 

Can danger reach me while the Lord 
Extends his mighty arm? 

4 Let this blest hope mine eyelids close; 
With sleep refresh my frame ; 

Safe in thy care may I repose, 
And wake to praise thy Name. 



366 F^vMILT DEVOTION. 

611 . CM. 

Evening : Numberless mercies, 
lyrOW from the altar of our hearts, 
JL\ Let warmest thanks arise ; 
Assist us, Lord, to offer up 
Our evening sacrifice. 

2 This day God was our sun and shield, 
Our keeper and our guide ; 

His care was on our weakness shown, — 
His mercies multipKed. 

3 Minutes and mercies multiphed. 
Have made up all this day; 

Minutes came quick, but mercies were 
More swift and free than they. 

4 New time, new favours, and new joys. 
Do a new song require : 

Till we shall praise thee as we would. 
Accept our hearts' desu'e. 

612 . L. M. 

Evening : Memorials of His grace. 

THUS far the Lord hath led me on, — 
Thus far liis power prolongs my days; 
And every evening shall make known 
Some fresh memorial of his grace. 

2 Much of my time has run to waste. 
And I, perhaps, am near my home: 

But he forgives my follies past, 

And gives me strength for days to come. 

3 I lay my body down to sleep ; 
Peace is the pillow for my head ; 

While well-appointed angels keep 

Their watchful stations round my bed. 

4 Thus, when the night of death shall come, 
My flesh shall rest beneath the ground, 

And wait thy voice to rouse my tomb, 
With sweet salvation in the sound. 



FAMILY DEVOTION. 367 

613 c.M. 

Evening: Relying upon divine grace, 

LORD, thou wilt hear me when I pray ; 
I am forever thine : 

1 fear before thee all the day, 

Nor would I dare to sin. 

2 And while I rest my weary head, 
From cares and business free, 

*Tis sweet conversing on my bed 
With my own heart and thee. 

3 I pay this evening sacrifice ; 
And, when my work is done, 

Great God, my faith, my hope rehes 
Upon thy grace alone. 

4 Thus, with my thoughts composed to peace, 
I'll give mine eyes to sleep ; 

Thy hand in safety keeps my days. 
And Avill my slumbei-s keep. 

614 S.M. 

Evening : Commending the soul to God, 

THOU seest my feebleness, 
Jesus, be thou my power, — 
My help and refuge in distress. 
My fortress and my tower. 

2 Give me to trust in thee ; 
Be thou my sure abode : 

My horn, and rock, and buckler be, 
My Saviour and my God. 

3 Myself I cannot save, — 
Myself I cannot keep,— 

But strength in thee I surely have. 
Whose eyehds never sleep. 

4 My soul to thee alone, 
Now therefore I commend : 

Thou, Jesus, love me as tliine own. 
And love me to the end. 



368 FAMILY DEVOTION. 

615 38th P. M. 86, 86, 88. 

Tlie evening sacrifice, 

THOU, Lord of life, whose tender care 
Hath led us on till now, 
Here, lowly, at the hour of prayer. 

Before thy throne we bow : 
We bless thy gracious hand, and pray 
Forgiveness for another day. 

2 With prayer, our humble praise we bring. 
For mercies day by day : 

Lord, teach our hearts thy love to sing ; 

Lord, teach us how to pray : 
All that we have we owe to thee, — 
Thy debtors through eternity. 

3 Thou, blessed God, hast been our guide. 
Through life our guard and friend ; 

Yet still, throughout life's wearied tide, 

Preserve us to the end : 
And when this life's sad journey 's past, 
BiCceive us to thyself at last. 

4 In our Redeemer's name, for all 
These blessings we implore ; 

Prostrate, Lord, before thee fall. 

And gratefully adore : 
Bend from thy throne of earth and skies, 
And bless our evening sacrifice. 

616 . c.M. 

Evening: Cheerful confidence, 

IN mercy. Lord, remember me. 
Through all the hours of night, 
And grant to me most graciously 
The safeguard of thy might. 

2 With cheerful heart I close mine eyes. 

Since thou wilt not remove : 
O, in the morning let me rise 

Rejoicing in thy love. 



FAMILY DEVOTIOIS. 369 

3 Or, if this night should prove uy last, 

And end my transient days ; 
Lord, take me to thy promised rest, 

Where I may sing thy praise. 

617 10th P. M. 8 lines 8s. 

Evening : Perfect security, 

INSPIRER and Hearer of prayer, 
Thou Shepherd and Guardian divine. 
My all to thy covenant care 

I, sleeping or waking, resign. 
While thou art my shield and my sun. 

The m'o'ht is no darkness to me ; 
And, fast as my minutes roll on. 
They bring me but nearer to thee. 

2 A sov'reign Protector I have. 
Unseen, yet forever at hand ; 

Unchangeably faithful to save, — 
Almighty to rule and command. 

Thy minist'ring spirits descend 

To watch, while thy samts are asleep ; 

By day and by night they attend. 
The heirs of salvation to keep. 

3 Their worship no interval knows ; 
Their fei-vour is still on the wing ; 

And while they protect my repose, 
They chant to the praise of my King. 

I, too, at the season ordain'd. 
Their chorus forever shall join ; 

And love and adore, without end. 
Their faithful Creator and mine. 

618 . CM. 

Evening : Angelic guardianship. 

ALL praise to Him who dwells in bliss, 
Who made both day and night • 
Wliose throne is in the vast abyss 
Of imcreated light. 
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370 FAMILY DEVOTION. 

2 Each thought and deed his piercing eyes 

With strictest search survey ; 
The deepest shades no more disguise. 

Than the full blaze of day. 

5 Whom thou dost guard, King of kings. 
No evil shall molest : 

Under the shadow of thy wings 
Shall they securely rest. 

4 Thy angels shall around their beds 

Their constant stations keep : 
Thy faith and truth shall shield their heads. 

For thou dost never sleep. 

6 May we with calm and sweet repose. 
And heavenly thoughts refreshed, 

Our eyelids with the mom unclose. 
And bless Thee, ever blest. 

619 L.M. 

Sabbath evening : Thy kingdom come. 

MILLIONS within thy courts have met, 
MilUons this day before thee bow'd ; 
Their faces Zionward were set, — 

Vows with their lips to thee they vow'd. 

2 But thou, soul-searching God ! hast known 
The hearts of all that bent the knee ; 

And hast accepted those alone, 
Who in the spirit worshipp'd thee. 

3 People of many a tribe and tongue. 
Of various languages and lands. 

Have heard thy tinith, thy glory sung. 
And offer'd prayer with holy hands. 

4 And not a prayer, a tear, a sigh. 
Hath fail'd this day some suit to gain ; 

To those in trouble thou wert nigh ; 
Not one hath sought thy face in vain. 



FAMILY DEVOTION. 371 

5 Thy poor were bountifully fed, — 

Thy chasten'd sons liave kiss'd the rod ; 
Thy mourners have been comforted, — 
The pure in heart have seen their God. 

6 Yet one prayer more ; — and be it one, 

In which both heaven and earth accord ;- - 
Fulfil thy promise to thy Son : 

Let all that breathe call Jesus Lord ! 

620 L. M. 

Night 

THEE, in the watches of the night, 
Do I not, Lord, remember still, 
And meditate ^vith calm delio^ht 

Upon the counsels of thy will ? 
2 Thy will is my perfection here ; 

And sighs for this, my whole desire, 
To' attain that heavenly character, 
And spotless in tliine arms expire. 

621 L. M. 

Self-dedication to the Lord. 

OLORD, thy heavenly grace impart, 
And fix my frail, inconstant heart ; 
Henceforth my chief desire shall be 
To dedicate myself to thee. 

2 Whatever pursuits my time employ. 
One thought shall fill my soul with joy : 
That silent, secret thought shall be. 
That all my thoughts are fix'd on thee. 

3 Thy glorious eye pervadeth space ; 
Thy presence, Lord, fills every place ; 
And wheresoever my lot may be, 
Still shall my spirit rest with thee. 

4 Renouncing every worldly thing. 
And safe beneath thy spreading wing, 
My sweetest thought henceforth shall be, 
That all I want I find in thee. 



B72 FAMILY DEVOTION. 

622 c.M. 

PeacCy love, and unHy. 

OLORD, another da^ lias flown, 
And we, a lowly band, 
Are met once more before thy tlirone, 
To bless thy fost'ring hand. 

2 Thy heavenly grace to each impart ; 
All evil far remove ; 

And shed abroad in every heart 
Thine everlasting love. 

3 Our souls, obedient to thy sway. 
In Christian bonds unite : 

Let peace and love conclude the day, 
And hail the morning light. 

4 Thus chastened, cleansed, entirely thine, 
A flock by Jesus led, — 

The sun of holiness shall shine 
In glory on our head. 

5 And thou wilt turn our wand'ring feet, 
And thou wilt bless our way, 

Till worlds shall fade, and faith shall greet 
The dawn of endless day. 

623 32dP.M. 884, 884. 

Tribute of gratitude, 

FATHER of spirits ! hear our prayer ; 
Our life, our hope, our comforter, 

Our strong abode : 
To thee our thankful hearts we raise, 
And humbly, gladly hymn thy praise. 

Preserver, God ! 
2 Thy gentle hand hath smoothed our way; 
Fed and sustain'd us day by day ; 

In thee we move : 
may thy mercies. Lord, inspire 
Our hearts with gratitude, and fire 

Our souls with love. 



FAMILY DEVOTION. 373 

624 ^- ^• 

Habitual devotion. 
ITT'HILE thee I seek, protecting Power, 
VV Be my vain wishes stilFd ; 
And may this consecrated hour 
With better hopes be fill'd. 

2 Thy love the power of thought bestow'd ; 
To thee my thoughts would soar : 

Thy mercy o'er my life has flowed ; 
That mercy I adore. 

3 In each event of life, how clear 
Thy ruling hand I see ; 

Each blessing to my soul most dear. 
Because conferr'd by thee. 

4 In every joy that crowns my days. 
In every pain I bear, 

My heart shall find delight in praise, 
Or seek relief in prayer. 

5 When gladness wings my favoured hour. 
Thy love my thoughts shall fill ; 

Resign'd, when storms of sorrow lower. 
My soul shall meet thy ^vill. 

6 My hfted eye, without a tear. 
The gath'rinor storm shall see : 

My steadfast heart shall know no fear ; 
That heart will rest on thee. 

625 L. M. 

Infinite indebtedness. 

GREAT God, let all our tuneful powers 
Awake, and sing thy mighty Name : 
Thy hand revolves the circling hours — 

Thy hand, from whence our being came. 
2 Seasons and moons, still rolling round 
In beauteous order, speak thy praise ; 
And years, with smiling mercy crown'd. 
To thee successive honours raise. 



374 FAMILY DEVOTION 

J Our life, and health, and friends, we owe 
All to thy vast, unbounded love ; 

Ten thousand precious gifts below. 
And hope of nobler joys above. 

4 Thus may we sing till nature cease, — 
Till sense and language are no more ; 

And, after death, thy boundless grace 
Through everlasting years adore. 

626 4th P. M. 886, 886. 

For the head of a family. 

I AND my house will serve the Lord : 
But first, obedient to his word 
I must myself appear ; 
By actions, words, and tempers, show 
That I my heavenly Master know. 
And serve with heart sincere. 

2 I must the fair example set ; 
From those that on my pleasure wait 

The stumbling-block remove ; 
Their duty by my life explain. 
And still in all my works maintain 

Tlie dignity of love. 

3 Easy to be entreated, mild. 
Quickly appeased and reconciled, 

A foll'wer of my God : 
A saint indeed I long to be. 
And lead my faithful family 

In the celestial road. 

4 Lord, if thou didst the wish mfuse, 
A vessel fitted for thy use 

Into thy hands receive : 
Work in me both to will and do ; 
And show them how believers tnie. 

And real Christians, live. 



FAMILY DEVOTION. 375 

627 S.M. 

Household consecration. 

THE power to bless my house, 
Belongs to God alone ; 
Yet rend'ring him my constant vows, 
He sends his blessings down. 

2 Shall I not then engage 

My house to serve the Lord, — 
To search the soul -converting page, 
And feed upon his word : — 

3 To ask, with faith and hope. 
The grace which he supplies, 

In prayer and praise to offer up 
Their daily sacrifice ? 

4 Let each his sin eschew. 
Through thy restraining grace ; 

Our father Abraham's steps pursue. 
And walk in all thy ways. 

5 Sa\iour of men, incline 

The hearts which thou hast made, — 
Which thou hast bought Avith blood divine, 
To ask thy promised aid. 

6 Me and my house receive. 
Thy fam'ly to increase ; 

And let us in thy favour live. 
And let us die in peace. 

628 L. M. 

Commencing tJie labours of the day. 

FORTH in thy name, Lord, I go. 
My daily labours to pursue ; 
Thee, only thee, resolved to know, 

In all I think, or speak, or do. 
2 Thee will 1 set at my right hand, 

Whose eyes mine inmost substance see ; 
And labour on at thy command. 
And offer all my works to thee. 



376 FAMILY DEVOTION. 

3 Give me to bear thy easy yoke. 
And every moment watch and pray ; 

And still to things eternal look, 

A.nd hasten to thy glorious day : — 

4 For thee delightfully employ 
Whate'er thy bounteous grace has given ; 

And run my course with even joy, 

And closely walk with thee to heaven. 

629 1st P. M. 6 lines Ss. 

For a blessing on the children. 

CAPTAIN of our salvation, take 
The souls we here present to thee. 
And fit for thy great service make 

These heirs of immortality : 
And let them in thine image rise, 
And then transplant to paradise. 

2 Unspotted from the world, and pure, 
Preserve them for thy glorious cause, 

Accustom'd daily to endure 

The welcome burden of thy cross ; 
lumped to toil and patient pain. 
Till all thy perfect mind they gain. 

3 Our sons henceforth be wholly thine. 
And serve and love thee all their days ; 

Infuse the principle divine 

In all who here expect thy grace ; 
Let each improve the grace bestow 'd ; 
Rise every child a man of God. 

4 Train up thy hardy soldiers, Lord, 
In all their Captain's steps to tread ; 

Or send them to proclaim thy word, — 

Thy gospel through the world to spread ; 
Freely as they receive to give. 
And preach the death by which we live ! 



FAMILY DEVOTION. 377 

630 L. M. 

No success loithout God's blessing. 

EXCEPT the Lord our labours bleos, 
In vain shall we desire success ; 
Except his guardian power restrain, 
The watchman waketh but in vain. 

2 'Tis useless toil our stores to keep,— 
Early to rise and late to sleep, — 
Unless the Lord, who reigns on high, 
His providential care supply. 

3 Grant, Lord, that we may ever flee 
For guidance and for help to thee ; 
Thy blessing ask, whate'er we do. 
And in thy strength our work pursue. 

031 . c.M. 

On returning from a journey/. 

THOU, Lord, hast blest my going out ; 
bless my coming in : 
Compass my weakness round about. 
And keep me safe from sin. 

2 Still hide me in thy secret place * 
Thy tabernacle spread : 

Shelter me with preserving grace, 
And screen my naked head. 

3 To thee for refuge may I run. 
From sin's alluring snare : 

Ready its first approach to shun. 
And watching unto prayer. 

4 that I never, never more 
Might from thy ways depart : 

Here let me give my wanderings o'ti. 
By giving thee my heart. 

5 Fix my new heart on things above. 
And then from earth release ; 

I ask not life, but let me love. 
And lay me down in peace. 



378 FAMILY DEVOTION. 

632 34th P.M. 77,75. 

Have mercy on us. 

LORD of mercy and of might, 
Of mankind the Hfe and light, 
Maker, Teacher, Infinite, — 
Jesus ! hear and save. 

2 Strong Creator, Saviour mild, 
Humbled to a little child. 
Captive, beaten, bound, reviled, — 

Jesus ! hear and save. 

3 Borne aloft on angels' wings. 
Throned above celestial things. 
Lord of lords, and King of kings — 

Jesus ! hear and save. 

4 Soon to come to earth again. 
Judge of angels and of men. 
Hear us now, and hear us then, — 

Jesus ! hear and save. 

633 CM. 

Acquiescence in the Divine Will. 

AUTHOR of good, we rest on thee : 
Thine ever watchful eye 
Alone our real wants can see, — 
Thy hand alone supply. 

2 In thine all gracious providence 
Our cheerful hopes confide ; 

O let thy power be our defence, — 
Thy love our footsteps guide. 

3 And since, by passion's force subdued. 
Too oft, with stubborn will, 

We bhndly shun the latent good. 
And grasp the specious ill, — 

4 Not what we wish, but what we want. 
Let mercy still supply : 

Tlie good unask'd, O Father, grant ; 
The ill, though ask'd, deny. 



FAMILY DEVOTION. 379 

634 C.M. 

In deep affliction. 

OGOD, who madest earth and sky, 
The darkness and the day. 
Give ear to this thy family. 
And help us when we pray : — 

2 For wild the waves of bitterness 
Around our vessel roar, 

And heavy grows the pilot's heart, 
To view the rocky shore. 

3 The cross our Master bore for us. 
For him we fain would bear ; 

But mortal strength to weakness turns, 
And courage to despair. 

4 Have mercy on our failings, Lord ; 
Our sinkinor faith renew : 

And when thy sorrows visit us, 
send thy patience too. 

635 . . L.M. 

Parting of friends. 

THY presence, everlasting God ! 
Wide o'er all nature spreads abroad : 
Thy watchful eyes, which cannot sleep. 
In every place thy children keep. 

2 While near each other we remain. 
Thou dost our lives and souls sustain ; 
When separate, happy if we share 
Thy smiles and thy paternal care. 

3 To thee we all our ways commit. 
And seek our comforts near thy feet ; 
Still on our souls vouchsafe to shine. 
And guard and guide us still as thine. 

4 Bring us again to pay our vows, 
Lord, in thy beloved house ; 
Or, if that joy no more be known, 
O may we meet around thy throne. 



380 FAMILY DEVOTION. 

636 L. M. 

On changing place of abode, 

SOLE Sov'reign of the earth and skies. 
Supremely good, supremely wise. 
Fix thou the place of our abode, 
But let it still be near our God. 

2 On earth we weary pilgrims roam, 
Nor find, nor hope, a lasting home ; 
We seek a house not made with hands, 
A heavenly house, which ever stands. 

3 Yet while we sojourn here below. 
Let streams of mercy round us flow ; 
And when our destined race is run. 
Assign us mansions near thy throne. 

637 6th P. M. Klines Vs. 

Death of a child. 

WHEREFORE should I make my moan, 
Now the darling child is dead ? 
He to early rest is gone, — 
He to paradise is fled : 

1 shall go to him, but he 
Never shall return to me. 

2 God forbids his longer stay; 
God recalls the precious loan ; 

God hath taken him away, 

From my bosom to his own : 
Surely what he \vills is best ; 
Happy in his will I rest. 

3 Faith cries out, — It is the Lord, 
Let him do as seems him good ! 

Be thy holy name adored ; 

Take the gift awhile bestow'd : 
Take the child no longer mine ; 
Thine he is, forever thine. 



FAMILY DEVOTION. 381 

638 . . C. M. 

Overwhelming grief. 

OTHOU, who in the ohve shade, 
When the dark hour came on, 
Didst, with a breath of heavenly aid. 
Strengthen thy snff 'ring Son, — 

2 0, by the anguish of that night, 
Send us down blest relief ; 

Or, to the chasten'd, let thy might 
Hallow tliis whelminof o-nef. 

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3 And thou, that, when the starry sky 
Saw the dread strife begun. 

Didst teach adoring faith to cry, — 
Father, thy will be done :— 

4 By thy meek Sphit, thou, of all 
That e'er have mourn'd the chief. 

Blest Saviour, if LLe stroke must fall, 
Hallow this whelming grief. 

639 10th P. M. 8 Zm? 8s 
Happiness of those whom God correcteth 

HOW happy the sorrowful man, 
Whose sorrow is sent from abo\ ^ ! 
Indulged with a visit of pain, — 

Chastised by omnipotent love ; 
The Author of all his distress 

He comes by affliction to know. 
And God he in heaven shall bless. 

That ever he suffer' d below. 
2 Thus, thus may I happily grieve, 

And bear the intent of his rod ; 
The marks of adoption receive, — 

The strokes of a merciful God : 
With nearer access to his throne, 

My burden of folly confess ; 
The cause of my miseries own. 

And cry for an answer of peace. 



382 FAMILY DEVOTION. 

3 Father of mercies, on me, 
On me, in affliction, bestow 

A power of applying to thee, — 
A sanctified use of my wo : 

1 would, in a spirit of prayer. 

To all thy appointments submit; 
The pledge of my happiness bear. 
And joyfully die at thy feet. 

4 Then, Father, and never till then, 
I all the felicity prove. 

Of li\ing a moment in pain, — 

Of dying in Jesus's love : 
A sufferer here with my Lord, 

With Jesus above I sit down; 
Receive an eternal reward. 

And glory obtain in a crown. 

640 4th P. M. 886, 886. 

Death of a relative or friend. 

IF death our friends and us divide. 
Thou dost not, Lord, our sorrow chide. 
Or frown, our tears to see ; 
Restrained from passionate excess. 
Thou bidd'st us mourn in calm distress 
For them that rest in tliee. 

2 We feel a strong immortal hope. 
Which bears our mournful spirits up. 

Beneath their moimtain load ; 
Redeem'd from death, and* grief, and pain, 
We soon shall find our friend again 

Within the arms of God. 

3 Pass a few fleeting moments more, 
And death the blessing shall restore 

Which death has snatch'd away ; 
For us thou wilt the summons send, 
And give us back our parted friend. 

In that eternal day. 



FAMILY DEVOTION. 383 

641 . . L. M. 

Sustaining grace prayed for, 

TAUGHT by our Lord, we Avill not pray 
Out of the world to be removed ; 
But keep us, in our evil day, 
Till patient faith is fully proved. 

2 From sin, the world, and Satan's snare. 
The members of thy Son defend, 

Till all thy character we bear. 
And grace matured in glory end. 

642 9th P.M. 87,87. 
Bereavement and resignation. 

JESUS, while our hearts are bleeding 
O'er the spoils that death has won. 
We would, at this solemn meeting. 
Calmly say, — Thy will be done. 

2 Though cast down, we're not forsaken ; 
Though afflicted, not alone : 

Thou didst give, and thou hast taken ; 
Blessed Lord, — Thy will be done. 

3 Though to-day we're fiU'd with mourning, 
Mercy still is on the throne ; 

With thy smiles of love returning. 
We can sing, — Thy will be done. 

4 By thy hands the boon was given ; 
Thou hast taken but thine own : 

Lord of earth, and God of heaven, 
Evermore, — Thy will be done. 

643 26th P.M. 1Q,1Q,1Q,1^. 
Exulting in the favour of God, 

TO thee, our God and Saviour, 
Our hearts exulting spring, 
Rejoicing in thy favour. 
Thou everlasting King : 



384 THE CLOSET. 

We '11 celebrate thy glory, 
With all the saints above ; 

And tell the wondrous story 
Of thy redeeming love. 

2 Soon as the morn with roses 
Bedecks the de^vy east, 

And when the sun reposes 
Upon the ocean's breast ; 

Our voice in suppUcation, 
Jehovah, thou shalt hear ; 

O grant us thy salvation. 
And be thou ever near. 

3 By thee through life supported, 
We pass the dang'rous road, 

By heavenly hosts escorted 
Up to their bright abode ; 

There cast our crowns before thee, 
Om' toils and conflicts o'er, 

And day and night adore thee, 
Forever, ever more. 



THE CLOSET. 

644 c.M. 

Retirement and meditation. 

FAR from the world, Lord, I flee. 
From strife and tumult far ; 
From scenes where Satan wages still 
His most successful war. 

2 The calm retreat, the silent shade, 
With prayer and praise agree ; 

And seem by thy sweet bounty made 
For those who follow thee. 

3 There, if thy Spirit touch the soul. 
And grace her mean abode, 

with what peace, and joy, and love, 
Does she commune with God ! 



THE CLOSET. 385 

4 Author and Guardian of my life, 
Sweet Source of light divine, 

And all harmonious names in one. 
My Saviour, — thou art mine ! 

5 The thanks I owe thee, and the love, 
A boundless, endless store, 

Shall echo through the realms above 
When time shall be no more. 

645 c. M. 

Enter into thy closet. 

FATHER of Jesus Christ, my Lord, 
I humbly seek thy face ; 
Encouraged by the Saviour's word 
To ask thy pard'ning grace. 

2 Entering into my closet, I 
The busy world exclude ; 

In secret prayer for mercy cry, 
And gi'oan to be renew'd. 

3 Far from the paths of men, to thee 
I solemnly retire ; 

See, thou who dost in secret see, 
And grant my heart's desire. 

4 Fain would I all thy goodness feel. 
And know my sins forgiven ; 

And do on earth thy perfect will. 
As angels do in heaven. 

646 c. M. 

Secret blessings. 

FATHER divine, thy piercmg eye 
Sees through the darkest night ; 
In deep retirement thou art nigh, 

With heart-disceming sight. 
2 May that obsenang eye survey 

My faithful homage paid. 
With every morning's dawning ray. 
And every evenin^^'s shade. 
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386 THE CLOSET. 

3 may thine own celestial fire 
The incense still inflame, 

While ferv^ent vows to thee aspire. 
Through my Redeemer's Name. 

4 So shall the \isits of thy love 
My soul in secret bless ; 

So wilt thou deign, in worlds above, 
Thy suppliant to confess. 

647 CM. 

Evening. — Solitude. 

ILOYE to steal awhile away 
From every cumb'ring care, 
And spend the hours of setting day 
In humble, grateful prayer. 

2 I love in solitude to shed 
The penitential tear. 

And all his promises to plead 
Where none but God can hear. 

3 I love to think on mercies past, 
And future good implore, — 

And all my cares and soitows cast 
On Him whom I adore. 

4 I love by faith to take a view 
Of brighter scenes in heaven ; 

The prospect doth my strength renew, 
While here by tempests driven. 

5 Thus, when life's toilsome day is o'er, 
May its departing ray 

Be calm as this impressive hour, 
And lead to endless day. 

648 L.M. 

Self-examination. 

OTHOU, great God, whose piercing eye 
Distinctly marks each deep recess ; 
In these sequester'd hours draw nigh, 
And with thy presence fill the place. 



THE CLOSET. 387 

2 Through all the mazes of my heart, 
My search let heavenly wisdom guide ; 

And still its radiant beams impart, 
Till all be searched and purified. 

3 Then, with the \isits of thy love. 
Do thou mine inmost spuit cheer ; 

Till every grace shall join to prove 
Tliat God has fix'd his dwelhng here. 

649 1st P. M. 6 lines Ss.^ 
Wrestling Jacob : — / will not let tliee go. 

COME, thou Traveller unknown, 
Whom still I hold, but cannot see ; 
My company before is gone. 

And I am left alone with thee : 
With thee all night I mean to stay, 
And wrestle till the break of day. 

2 I need not tell thee who I am ; 
My sin and misery declare ; 

Thyself hast calVd me by my name ; 

Look on thy hands, and read it there : 
But who, I ask thee, who art thou ? 
Tell me thy name, and tell me now. 

3 In vain thou strugglest to get free ; 
I never will unloose my hold : 

Art thou the Man that died for me ? 

The secret of thy love unfold : 
Wrestling, I will not let thee go, 
Till I thy name, thy nature know. 

650 1st P. M. Q lines Q^, 
Continued. — When I am weak^ then am I strong, 

VILT thou not yet to me reveal 
Thy new, unutterable name ? 
Tell me, I still beseech thee, tell ; 
To know it now resolved I am : 
Wresthng, I mil not let thee go. 
Till I thy name, thy nature know. 



388 THE CLOSET. 

2 Wliat though my shrinking flesh com- 
plain, 

And murmur to contend so lonor ? 
. . . *^ 

I rise superior to my pain : 

When I am weak, then I am strong ! 

And wlien my all of strength shall fail, 

1 shall with the God-man prevail. 

651 1st P. M. 6 lines 8s. 

Continued, — Victorious prayer. 

YIELD to me now, for I am weak, 
But confident in self-despair ; 
Speak to my heart, in blessings speak ; 
Be conquer'd by my instant prayer : 
Speak, or thou never hence shalt move. 
And tell me if thy name be Love. 

2 'Tis Love ! 'tis Love ! thou diedst for me ; 
I hear thy whisper in my heart ; 

The morning breaks, the shadows flee ; 

Pure, universal Love thou art : 
To me, to all, thy bowels move, — 
Thy nature and thy name is Love. 

3 My prayer hath power with God; the 

grace 

Unspeakable I now receive ; 
Through faith I see thee face to face ; 

I see thee face to face, and live ! 
In vain I have not wept and strove ; 
Thy nature and thy name is Love. 

4 I know thee, Sa\iour, who thou art, — 
Jesus, the feeble sinner's Friend : 

Nor wilt thou with the night depart, 
But stay and love me to the end : 
Thy mercies never shall remove ; 
Thy nature and thy name is Love. 



THE CLOSET 389 

652 1st p. M. 6 li7ies 8s. 
Conchided. — Thy name is Love. 

THE Sun of Righteousness on me 
Hatli risen with healing in his wings : 
Wither'd my natm^e's strength, from thee 

My soul its life and succour brings : 
My help is all laid up above ; 
Thy nature and thy name is Love. 

2 Contented now, upon my thigh 

I halt, till life's short journey end ; 
All helplessness, all weakness, I 

On thee alone for strength depend : 
Nor have I power from thee to move ; 
Thy natm-e and thy name is Love. 

3 Lame as I am, I take the prey ; 

Hell, earth, and sin, ^dth ease overcome ; 

1 leap for joy, pursue my way. 

And, as a bounding hart, fly home. 
Through all eternity to prove 
Thy nature and thy name is Love. 

653 L. M. 

The Minister's prayer : Christ's constraining love, 

SAVIOUR of men, thy searching eye 
Doth all mine inmost thoughts desciy: 
Doth aught on earth my wishes raise. 
Or the world's pleasures, or its praise ? 

2 The love of Chiist doth me constrain 
To seek the wand'ring souls of men ; 
With cries, entreaties, tears, to save, — 
To snatch them from the gaping grave. 

3 For this let men revile my name ; 
No cross I shim, I fear no shame : 

All hail, reproach; and welcome, pain; 
Only thy terrors. Lord, restrain. 



390 THE CLOSET. 

4 My life, my blood, I here present. 
If for thy truth they may be spent ; 
Fulfil thy sovereign counsel, Lord; 
Thy will be done, thy Name adored. 

5 Give me thy strength, God of power : 
Then let winds blow, or thunders roar, 
Thy faithful witness will I be: 

'Tis fix'd ; I can do all through thee. 

654 c. M. 

The Minister's prayer : The scandal of the cross. 

JESUS, my strength and righteousness. 
My Saviour and my King, 
Triumphantly thy Name I bless, — 
Thy conquering Name I sing. 

2 Thou, Lord, hast magnified thy Name ; 
Thou hast maintain'd thy cause; 

And I enjoy the glorious shame, — 
The scandal of thy cross. 

3 Thou gavest me to speak thy word, 
In the appointed hour ; 

I have proclaimed my dying Lord, 
And felt thy Spirit's power. 

4 Superior to my foes I stood. 
Above their smile or frown; 

On all the strangers to thy blood 
With pitying love look'd do^vn. 

5 let me have thy presence still ; 
Set as a flint my face. 

To show the counsel of thy will. 
Which saves a world by grace. 

6 let me never blush to own 
The glorious Gospel- word ; 

Which saves a world through faith alone, 
Faith in a dying Lord. 



THE CLOSET. 391 

655 L- M. 

The Minister's prayer : Boldness in the Gospel, 

SHALL I, for fear of feeble man. 
The Spirit's course in me restrain? 
Or, undismay'd in deed and word, 
^^e a true witness of my Lord ? 
'J Awed by a mortal's frown, shall I 
Conceal the word of God Most High? 
How then before thee shall I dare 
To stand, or how thine anger bear? 

3 Shall I, to soothe the' unholy throng, 
Soften thy truth, or smooth my tongue, 
To gain earth's gilded toys, — or flee 
The cross endured, my Lord, by thee? 

4 What then is he whose scorn I dread ? 
WhoaC wrath or hate makes me afraid? 
A man ! an heir of death ! a slave 

To sin ! a bubble on the wave ! 

5 Yea, let men rage ; since thou wilt spread 
Thy shadowing wings around my head : 
Since in all pain thy tender love 

Will still my sure refreshment prove. 

656 3d P. M. 4 6s it 2 8s. 

Birthday. 
I OD of my life, to thee 
My cheerful soul I raise ; 
Thy goodness bade me be. 
And still prolongs my days: 
I see my natal hour return. 
And bless the day that I was boru. 
2 A clod of li^dng earth, 

I glorify thy Name, 
From whom alone my birth. 
And all my blessings came: 
Creating and presei-ving grace. 
Let all that is withm me praise. 



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392 THE CLOSET. 

3 Long as I live beneath. 
To thee let me live; 

To thee my every breath 
In thanks and praises give : 
Whate'er I have, whate'er I am. 
Shall magnify my Maker's Name. 

4 My soul and all its powers 
Thine, wholly thine, shall be; 

All, all my happy hours 
I consecrate to thee: 
Me to thine image now restore. 
And I shall praise thee evermore. 

5 I wait thy will to do. 
As angels do in heaven ; 

In Christ a creature new. 
Most graciously forgiven: 
I wait thy perfect will to prove, 
All sanctified by spotless love. 

6 Then, when the work is done. 
The work of faith with power, 

Receive thy favoured son, 
In death's triumphant hour: 
Like Moses, to thyself convey, 
And kiss my raptured soul away. 

657 L. M. 

Smarting under the rod. 

CHASTISED by an indulgent God, 
I would the kind chastisement feel ; 
But never faint beneath the rod. 
Nor desp'rate, nor msensible : — 

2 From each extreme divinely kept. 
The trouble coming from above 

I would with thankful awe accept, 

And bless with tears my Father's love. 



THE CLOSET. 393 

658 c. M. 

Secret communion mth God. 

SWEET is the prayer whose holy stream 
In earnest pleading flows ; 
Devotion dwells upon the theme, 
And warm and warmer glows. 

2 Faith grasps the blessing she desires ; 
Hope points the upward gaze ; 

And Love, celestial Love, inspires 
The eloquence of praise. 

3 But sweeter far the still small voice. 
Unheard by human ear, 

When God has made the heart rejoice. 
And dried the bitter tear. 

4 No accents flow, no words ascend ; 
All utterance faileth there ; 

But God himself doth comprehend, 
And answer, silent prayer. 

659 9th P. M. 87, 8^ 

In deep affliction. 

FULL of trembling expectation. 
Feeling much, and fearing more. 
Mighty God of my salvation, 
I thy timely aid impl )re. 

2 Sufi" 'ling Son of man, be near me. 
In my sufferings to sustain ; 

By thy sorer griefs to cheer me, — 
By thy more than mortal pain. 

3 By thy most severe temptation 
In that dark Satanic hour; 

By thy last mysterious passion, 

Screen me from the adverse power. 

4 By thy fainting in the garden, 
By thy dreadful death, I pray. 

Write upon my heart the pardon; 
Take my sins and fears away. 



394 THE CLOSET. 

660 CM. 

In time of peril. 

MY Saviour from the wi^ath to come. 
From present evil save ; 
Avert the deep impending gloom, — 
The darkness of the grave. 

2 Still hold my soul in life, I pray; 
A dying worm reprieve ; 

And let me all my lengthen'd day 
Unto thy glory live. 

3 Now, Lord, I have to tliee made known 
My troubled soul's request, 

And sink in calm dependence down. 
Within thine arms to rest: — 

4 Secure, in danger's darkest hour, 
Thy faithfulness to prove, 

Protected by almighty power. 
And everlasting love. 

661 L. M. 

In sickness : Praying for recovery, 

ANGrEL of covenanted grace. 
Come, and thy healing power infuse ; 
Descend in thine own time, and bless, 
And give the means their hallow' d use. 

2 Obedient to thy will alone. 

To thee in means I calmly fly: 
My life, I know, is not my own ; 
To God I Uve, to God I die. 

3 Thy holy will be ever mine : 

If thou on earth detain me still, 
I bow, and bless the grace divine, — 
I suffer all thy holy will. 

4 I come, if thou my strength restore. 

To serve thee with my strength renewed; 
Grant me but this, I ask no more— 
To spend and to be spent for God. 



THE CLOSET. 395 

662 c. M. 

Consolations in sickness. 

¥HEN languor and disease invade 
This trembling house of clay, 
'Tis sweet to look beyond my pains, 
And long to fly away; — 

2 Sweet to look inward, and attend 
The whispers of liis love ; 

Sweet to look upward, to the place 
Where Jesus pleads above ; — 

3 Sweet to look back, and see my name 
In hfe's fair book set down; 

Sweet to look forward, and behold 
Eternal joys my own ; — 

4 Sweet to reflect how grace divine 
My sins on Jesus laid ; 

Sweet to remember that his blood 
My debt of suffering paid ; — 

5 Sweet to rejoice in lively hope. 
That, when my change shall come. 

Angels shall hover round my bed. 
And waft my spirit home. 

6 If such the sweetness of the stream, 
What must the fountain be, 

Where saints and angels draw their bliss 
Directly, Lord, from thee. 

663 . c. M. 

Recovery fro^n sickness. 

MY God, thy service well demands 
The remnant of my days ; 
Why was this fleeting breath renewed. 

But to renew thy praise? 
2 Thine arms of everlasting love 

Did this w^eak frame sustain. 
When life was hov'iing o'er the grave, 
And nature sank Avith pain. 



396 THE CLOSET. 

3 I calmly bow'd my fainting head 
Upon thy faithful breast, 

And waited for my Father's caL 
To his eternal rest. 

4 Into thy hands, my Saviour Goa, 
Did I my soul resign. 

In firm dependence on that truth 
Which made salvation mine. 

5 Back from the borders of the grave. 
At thy command, I come ; 

Nor will I ask a speedier flight 
To my celestial home. 

6 Where thou appointest mine abode, 
There would I choose to be ; 

For in thy presence death is life. 
And earth is heaven with thee. 

664 6th p. M. 6 lines Is. 

The gates of death. 

OTHOU God who hearest prayer, 
Every hour and everywhere. 
Listen to my feeble breath, 
Now I touch the gates of death : — 
For His sake whose blood I plead, 
Hear me in this hour of need. 

2 Hear and save me, gracious Lord, 
For my trust is in thy word ; 
Wash me from the stain of sin. 
That thy peace may rule within ; 
May I know myself thy child, 
Ransom'd, pardon'd, reconciled. 

3 Thou art merciful to save ; 

Thou hast snatch'd me from the grave ; 
I would Idss the chast'ning rod, 
my Father and my God ! 
Only hide not now thy face, 
God of all-sufficient grace. 



THE CLOSET. 397 

4 Leave me not, my strength, my trust; 
O r<^member I am dust : 
Leave me not again to stray; 
Leave me not the tempter's prey: 
Fix my heart on things above ; 
Make me happy in thy love. 

665 . . c. M. 

A Sabbath in the sick-chamber. 

THOUSANDS, Lord of Hosts, this day 
Ai'ound thine altars meet; 
And tens of thousands throng to pay 
Then- homage at thy feet. 

2 They sing thy deeds, as I have sung, 
In sweet and solemn lays ; 

Were I among them, my glad tongue 
Might learn new themes of praise. 

3 For thou ail in their midst to teach, 
When on thy Name they call; 

And thou hast blessings. Lord, for each, — - 
Hast blessings, Lord, for all. 

4 I, of such fellowship bereft. 
In spirit turn to thee : 

0, hast thou not a blessing left, — 
A blessing. Lord, for me? 

5 Behold thy pris'ner; — loose my bands, 
If 'tis thy gracious will ; 

If not, — contented in thy hands, — 
Behold thy pris'ner stiU. 

6 I may not to thy courts repair. 
Yet here thou surely art; 

Lord, consecrate a house of prayer 
In my sun-ender'd heaii;. 

7 To faith reveal the things unseen; 
To hope, the joys untold ; 

Let love, without a veil between. 
Thy glory now behold. 



398 THE OLOSBiT. 

666 L. M. 

Pleading for mercy in the hour of affliction, 

CUT me not off, almighty Lord, 
But use the rod, and not the sword : 
Unneeded pain thou canst not give, 
Nor without cause thy children grieve. 

2 Though sorrow break this wretched heart, 
And pain the soul and body part, 

suffer not my soul to be 
One moment separate from thee. 

3 And now, in kind compassion, show 
What means this providential blow; 
That here I may thy mercy see, 
And all the good designed for me. 

667 S. M. 

The Friend who conquers death. 

¥HE]Sr death before my sight 
Appears in dh'e array. 
Unequal to the dreadful fight. 
My corn-age faints away. 

2 How shall I meet this foe, 
Whose fro^vn my soul alarms? 

Dark horror sits upon his brow, 
And vict'ry waits his arms. 

3 But with the eye of faith, 
Piercing beyond the grave, 

1 see that Friend who conquers death. 
Whose arm alone can save. 

668 6th P. M. 6 lines Ys. 

The husband and father awaiting death, 

OTHOU faithful God of love, 
Gladly I thy promise plead ; 
Waiting for my last remove, — 

Hastening to the happy dead : 
Lo ! I cast on thee my care ; 
Breathe my latest breath in prayer. 



THE CLOSET. 399 

2 Trusting in thy word alone 

I to tliee my children leave : 
Call my little ones thy own ; 

Give them all thv blessinojs, mve: 
Keep them while on earth they breathe ; 
Save their souls from endless death. 

3 Whom I to thy grace commend, 
Into thy embraces take ; 

Be her sure, immortal Friend, 

Save her, for my Sa^dour's sake : 
Free from sin, from sorrow free, 
Let my widow trust in thee. 

4 Father of the fatherless, 
Husband of the widow, prove ; 

Me and mine persist to bless ; 

Tell me we shall meet above: 
Seal the promise on my heart ; 
Bid me then in peace depart. 

669 . . s. M. 

For victory in the dying hour. 

¥HE]Sr on the brink of death 
My trembling soul shall stand, 
Waiting to pass that awful flood. 
Great God ! at thy command ; — 

2 When every scene of hfe 
Stands ready to depart ; 

And the last sigh that shakes the frame 
Shall rend this bursting heart; — • 

3 Thou Source of joy supreme, 
Whose arm alone can save, — 

Dispel the darkness that surrounds 
The entrance to the grave. 

4 Lay thy supporting hand 
Beneath my sinking head ; 

And with a ray of love divine 
Ilhmie my dying bed. 



400 THE CLOSET. 

6 Leaning on Jesus' breast. 

May I resign my breath ; 
And in his kmd embraces lose 

The bitterness of death. 

670 1st P. M. 6 lines 8s. 

Helpless, yet happy, 

OTHOU, whose wise, paternal love 
Hath brought my active vigour down, 
Thy choice I thankfully approve; 

And, prostrate at thy gracious throne, 
I oflPer up my hfe's remains, — 

1 choose the state my God ordains. 

2 Cast as a broken vessel by, 
Thy work I can no longer do ; 

Yet while a daily death I die. 

Thy power I may in weakness show: 
My patience may thy gloiy raise, — 
My speechless wo proclaim thy praise. 

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Aged and helpless. 

IN age and feebleness extreme. 
Who shall a helpless worm redeem? 
Jesus, my only hope thou art, — 
Strength of my failing flesh and heaiii : 
0, could I catch a smile from thee. 
And drop into eternity! 

672 4th P. M. 886,886 
The aged pilgrim. 

THY mercy heard my infant prayer; 
Thy love, with kind, paternal care, 
Sustained my childish days : 
Thy goodness watch'd my ripening youth, 
And form'd my heart to love thy truth, 
And fiird my lips with praise. 



THE CLOSET. 401 

2 And now, in age and grief, thy Name 
Doth still my languid heart inflame. 

And bow my faltering knee : 
0, yet this bosom feels the fire ; 
This trembling hand and drooping lyre 

Have yet a strain for thee ! 

3 Yes; broken, tmieless, still, Lord, 
This voice, transported, shall record 

Tliy goodness, tried so long; 
Till, sinking slow, with calm decay, 
Its feeble mm^murs melt away 

Into a seraph's song. 

673 L- M. 

Tlie aged disciple' s prayer . 

FOREWARN'D by my Redeemer's love, 
I soon shall lay this body down ; 
But ere my soul from earth remove, 

may I put thine image on. 
2 Saviour ! thy meek and lowly mind 

Be to thine aged seiwant given ; 

And glad I'll drop tliis tent, to find 

My everlasting home in heaven. 

674 5th P. M. 4 lines Is, 

The dying believer. 

DEATHLESS spirit, now aiise ; 
Soar, thou native of the skies — 
Pearl of price by Jesus bought. 
To his glorious likeness wrought: — 

2 Go to shine before the throne ; 
Deck the Mediator's crown ; 

Go, his triimiphs to adorn; 
Made for God, to God return. 

3 Angels, joyful to attend, 
Hov'ring round thy pillow bend ; 
Wait to catch the signal given. 
And convey thee quick to heaven. 

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402 THE CLOSET. 

4 Burst thy shackles ; drop thy clay ; 
Sweetly breathe thyself away ; 
Singing, to thy crown remove, 

Swift of wing, and fired with love. 

5 Shudder not to pass the stream : 
Venture all thy care on Him — 
Him, whose dying love and power 
Stiird its tossing, hush'd its roar. 

6 Safe is the expanded wave, — 
Gentle as a summer's eve ; 
Not one object of his care 
Ever suffered shipwreck there. 

Y See the haven full in view ; 
Love divine shall bear thee through : 
Trust to that propitious gale ; 
Weigh thine anchor, spread thy sail. 

8 Saints in glory, perfect made. 
Wait thy passage through the shade ; 
Swiftly to their wish be given; 
Kindle higher joy in heaven. 

675 40th P. M. 

The dying Christian to his soul. 

YITAL spark of heavenly flame. 
Quit, quit this mortal frame. 
Trembling, hoping, lingering, flymg, 
the pain, the bliss of dying ! 
Cease, fond nature, cease thy strife, 
And let me languish into life. 

2 Hark! they whisper: angels say, — 
Sister spirit, come away! 
— What is this absorbs me quite, — 
Steals my senses, shuts my sight, — 
Drowns my spirit, draws my breath? 
Tell me, my soul, can this be death? 



THE SCRIPTURES. 403 

3 The world recedes : it disappears ; 
Heaven opens on my eyes ; my ears 

With sounds seraphic ring. 
Lend, lend your wings ! I mount ! I fly ! 
grave, where is thy victory? 

death, where is thy sting? 



THE SCRIPTURES. 

676 c.M. 

Riches of God^s word. 

THE counsels of redeeming grace 
The sacred leaves unfold; 
And here the Saviour's lovely face 
Our raptured eyes behold. 

2 Here light descending from above 
Directs our doubtful feet ; 

Here promises of heavenly love 
Our ardent wishes meet. 

3 Our numerous griefs are here redress'd. 
And all our wants suppUed : 

Naught we can ask to make us blest 
Is in this book denied. 

4 For these inestimable gains, 
That so enrich the mind, 

O may we search with eager pains. 
Assured that we shall find. 

677 C. M. 

Excellency and s:ijifficien€y. 

FATHER of mercies, in thy word 
What endless glory shines ; 
Forever be thy Name adored 

For these celestial lines. 
2 Here may the wretched sons of want 

Exhaustless riches find ; 
Riches above what earth can grant, 
And lasting as the mind. 



404 THE SCRIPTURES. 

3 Here the fair tree of knowledge grows, 
And yields a free repast ; 

Sublimer sweets than nature knows 
Invite the longing taste. 

4 Here the Redeemer's welcome voice 
Spreads heavenly peace around; 

And life, and everlasting joys, 
Attend the blissful sound. 

5 may these heavenly pages be 
Our ever dear delight; 

And still new beauties may we see, 
And still increasing hght. 

6 Divine Instructer, gracious Lord, 
Be thou forever near ; 

Teach us to love thy sacred word. 
And view the Sa^dour there. 

678 CM. 

Light and glory of the sacred page. 

VHAT glory gilds the sacred page ! 
Majestic, hke the sun, 
It gives a light to every age ; 
It gives, but borrows none. 

2 The power that gave it still suppHes 
The gracious light and heat; 

Its truths upon the nations rise : 
They rise, but never set. 

3 Lord ! everlasting thanks be thine 
For such a bright display, 

As makes a world of darkness shine 
With beams of heavenly day. 

4 Our souls rejoicingly pursue 
The steps of Him we love. 

Till glory break upon our view 
In" brighter worlds above. 



THE SCRIPTURES. 405 

079 c. M. 

The SpiriCs enlightening influences. 

COME, Holy Ghost, our hearts inspu-e ; 
Let us thine influence prove ; — 
Source of the old prophetic fire ; 

Fountain of life and love. 
2 Come, Holy Ghost, for moved by thee 

The prophets ^vrote and spoke: 
Unlock the tnith, thyself the key ; 

Unseal the sacred book, 
o Expand thy wings. Celestial Dove; 

Brood o'er our natm-e's night; 
On our disorder'd spirits move, 

And let there now be light. 
4 God, through himself, we then shall know, 

If thou within us slune ; 
And sound, with all thy saints below, 

The depths of love di^dne. 

680 c. M. 

The revealing Spirit. 

FATHER of all, in whom alone 
We hve, and move, and breathe ; 
One bright, celestial ray dart down, 
And cheer thy sons beneath. 

2 While in thy word we search for thee, 
(We search with trembhng awe ;) 

Open our eyes, and let us see 
The wonders of thy law. 

3 Now let our darkness comprehend 
The light that shines so clear; 

Now the revealing Spirit send, 
And give us ears to hear. 

4 Before us make thy goodness pass. 
Which here by faith we know ; 

Let us in Jesus see thy face, 
And die to all below. 



406 THE SCRIPTURES. 

681 c. IL 

Perfection of the law and testimony, 

THY law is perfect, Lord of light ; 
Thy testimonies sure ; 
The statutes of thy realm are right, 
And thy commandment pure. 

2 Let these, God, my soul convert, 
And make thy servant wise ; 

Let these be gladness to my ears, — 
The dayspring to mine eyes. 

3 By these may I be wam'd betimes ; 
Who knows the guile within ? 

Lord, save me from presumptuous crimes ; 
Cleanse me from secret sin. 

4 So may the words my lips express, — 
The thoughts that throng my mind, — 

Lord, my strength and righteousness. 
With thee acceptance find. 

682 S.M. 

Safety in keeping God^s precepts, 

HOW perfect is thy word. 
Thy judgments all are just ; 
And ever in thy promise. Lord, 
May man secm-ely trust. 

2 I hear thy word in love ; — 
In faith thy word obey ; 

send thy Spirit from above. 
To teach me. Lord, thy way. 

3 Thy counsels all are plain. 
Thy precepts all are pure ; 

And long as heaven and earth remain, 
Thy truth shall still endm^e. 

4 may my soul, with joy, 
Trust in thy faithful word ; 

Be it through life my glad employ, 
To keep thy precepts, Lord. 



THE SCRIPTURES. 407 

083 . C-M. 

Predoicsness of the Bible, 

HOW precious is the book divine. 
By inspiration given; 
Bright as a lamp its doctrines shine, 
To guide our souls to heaven. 

2 It sweetly cheers oui' drooping hearts. 
In this dark vale of tears ; 

And life, and Ught, and joy imparts. 
And banishes our fears. 

3 This lamp, through all the tedious night 
Of life, shall guide our way ; 

Till we behold the clearer Ught 
Of an eternal day. 

684 c. M. 

Light upon the narrow path, 

BRIGHT was the guiding star that led, 
With mild, benignant ray, 
The Gentiles to the lowly shed 
Where the Redeemer lay. 

2 But lo ! the Scriptures' clearer light 
Now points to his abode ; 

It sliines through sin and sorrow's night, 
To guide us to our God. 

3 let us tread the narrow path. 
While hght and grace are given; 

And thus escape the coming wrath. 
And reign with him in heaven. 

685 1st P. M. 6 lines 8s, 

The divine Interpreter. 

SPIRIT of Truth, essential God, 
Who didst thine ancient saints inspire, 
Shed in their hearts thy love abroad. 

And touch then hallow'd lips with fii'e: 
Our God from all eternity, 
Woi'ld without end we worship thee. 



408 THE SCRIPTURES. 

2 Still we believe, almighty Lord, 

Whose presence fills both earth and heaven. 
The meaning of the written word 

Is by thy insphation given; 
Thou only dost thyself explain 
The secret mind of God to man. 

3 Come, then, divine Interpreter, — 
The Scriptures to our hearts apply; 

And, taught by thee, we God revere ; 

Him in three persons magnify : 
And still the triune God adore. 
Who was, and is, forever more. 

686 s. M. 

The word of God^ quick and powerful. 

THY word, almighty Lord, 
Where'er it enters in. 
Is sharper than a two-edged sword, 
To slay the man of sin. 

2 Thy word is power and life ; 
It bids confusion cease, 

And changes envy, hatred, strife, 
To love, and joy, and peace. 

3 Then let our hearts obey 
The gospel's glorious sound; 

And all its fruits, from day to day, 
Be in us and abound. 

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Delight in the word. 

WHEN quiet in my house I sit, 
Thy book be my companion still; 
My joy thy sayings to repeat, — 

Talk o'er the records of thy \^dll, 
And search the oracles divine, 
Till every heartfelt word be mine. 



THE SCRIPTURES. 409 

2 may the gracious words divine. 
Subject of all my converse be ; 

So will the Lord his foll'wer join, 

And walk and talk himself with me : 
So shall my heart his presence prove. 
And bum with everlasting love. 

3 Oft as I lay me do^vn to rest, 
may the reconciling word 

Sweetly compose my weary breast; 
While on the bosom of my Lord 

1 sink in bUssful dreams away, 
And visions of eternal day. 

4 Rising to sing my Saviour's praise. 
Thee may I publish all day long; 

And let thy precious word of grace 

Flow from my heart, and fill my tongue: 
Fill all my life with purest love, 
And join me to the church above. 

688 . . . L- M. 

The Saviour seeii in the Scriptures, 

NOW let my soul, eternal King, 
To thee its grateful tribute bring ; 
My knee, with humble homage, bow ; 
My tongue perform its solemn vow. 

2 All nature sings thy boundless love, 
Li worlds below, and worlds above ; 
But in thy blessed word I trace 
Diviner wonders of thy grace. 

3 There, what delightful truths I read ! 
There, I behold the Saviour bleed : 
His name salutes my list'ning ear, 
Re\ives my heart, and checks my fear. 

4 There Jesus bids my sorrows cease. 
And gives my laboring conscience peace ; 
Raises my grateful thoughts on high. 
And points to mansions in the sky. 



410 THE SCRIPTURES. 

5 For love like this, let my song. 
Through endless years, thy praise prolong; 
Let distant climes thy Name adore, 
Till time and nature are no more. 

689 . . s. M. 

Their universal diffusion. 

JESUS, the word bestow, — 
The true immortal seed; 
Thy gospel then shall greatly grow. 

And all om- land o'erspread ; 
Through earth extended wide 

Shall mightily prevail, — 
Destroy the works of self and pride, 

And shake the gates of hell. 
2 Its energy exert 

In the believing soul ; 
Diffuse thy grace through every part. 

And sanctify the whole; 
Its utmost vhiue show 

In pure consummate love, 
And fill with all thy life below, 

And give us thrones above. 

690 . CM. 

Revelation welcomed and disseminated, 

HAIL, sacred truth ! whose piercing rays 
Dispel the shades of night; 
Diffusing o'er a ruin'd world 
The healing beams of light. 

2 Tliy word, Lord, with friendly aid. 
Restores our wand'ring feet; 

Converts the sorrows of the mind 
To joys divinely sweet. 

3 send thy light and truth abroad. 
In all their radiant blaze; 

And bid the' admiring world adore 
The glories of thy grace. 



CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP. 



COMMUNION OF SAINTS. 

691 . C. M. 

The universal bond of love. 

THE glorious universe around, 
The heavens with all their train. 
Sun, moon, and stars, are firmly bound 
In one mysterious chain. 

2 The earth, the ocean, and the sky. 
To form one world agree; 

Where all that walk, or swim, or fly, 
Compose one family, 

3 God in creation thus displays 
His wisdom and his might. 

While all his works with all liis ways 
Harmoniously unite. 

4 In one fraternal bond of love. 
One fellowship of mind, 

The saints below and saints above 
Their bliss and glory find. 

5 Here, in their house of pilgrimage. 
Thy statutes are their song; 

There, through one bright, eternal age, 
Thy praises they prolong. 

6 Lord, may our union form a part 
Of that thrice happy whole; 

Derive its pulse from thee, the heart, 
Its life from thee, the soul 

692 S. M. 

One in Christ Jesus. 

LET party names no more 
The Christian world overspread ; 
Gentile and Jew, and bond and free. 
Are one in Clirist their Head. 



412 CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP. 

2 Among the saints on earth 
Let mutual love be found; 

Heirs of the same inheritance, 
With mutual blessings cro^vn'd. 

3 Thus will the church below 
Resemble that above ; 

Where streams of bhss forever flow, 
And every heart is love. 

693 CM. 

Love the test of discipleship, 

OUR God is love ; and all his saints 
His image bear below: 
The heart with love to God inspired. 
With love to man will glow. 

2 None who are truly born of God 
Can hve in enmity ; 

Then may we love each other. Lord, 
As we are loved by thee. 

3 Heirs of the same immortal bliss, 
Our hopes and fears the same. 

With bonds of love om- hearts unite, 
With mutual love inflame. 

4 So may the unbelieving world 
See how true Christians love ; 

And glorify our Saviour's grace. 
And seek that grace to prove. 

694 s. M. 

Sweet communion. 

BLEST are the sons of peace. 
Whose hearts and hopes are one; 
Whose kind designs to serve and please 

Through all their actions run. 
2 Blest is the pious house 

Where zeal and friendship meet; 
Their songs of praise, their mingled vows. 
Make their communion sweet. 



COMMUNION OF SAINTS. 413 

3 Thus on the heavenly hills 

The saints are blest above, 
Where joy like mornino^ dew distils, 

And all the air is lo\e. 

695 c. M. 

TJie h\rTid of perfect7iess. 

THE sacred bond of perfectness 
Is spotless charity ; 
let us, Lord, we pray, possess 
Tlie mind that Avas in thee. 

2 Grant this, and then from all below 
Insensibly remove : 

Om- souls the change shall scarcely know, 
Made perfect fii'st in love. 

3 With ease om- souls through death shall glide 
Into their paradise ; 

And thence on wings of angels ride 
Triumphant through the skies. 

4 Yet when the fullest joy is given, 
The same delight we prove ; 

In earth, in paradise, in heaven, 
Om- all in all is love. 

696 'i'thP. M. 8 lines 1^. 

Sweet counsel. 

GLORY be to God above,— 
God, from whom all blessings flow; 
Make we mention of his love ; 

Publish we his praise below : 
Caird together by his grace. 

We are met in Jesus' name ; 
See with joy each other's face, 

FolFwers of the bleeding Lamb. 
2 Let us then sweet counsel take, 

How to make our calling sui'e ; 
Our election how to make, 

Past the reach of hell, secui'e : 



414 CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP. 

Build we each the other up ; 

Pray we for our faith's increase; 
SoUd comfort, settled hope, 

Constant joy, and lasting peace, 
3 More and more let love abound : 

Let us never, never rest, 
Till we are in Jesus found. 

Of our paradise possess'd : — 
He removes the flaming sword. 

Calls us back, from Eden driven; 
To his image here restored, 

Soon he takes us up to heaven. 

697 c. M. 

All-uniting faith. 

LET all in whom the Spirit glows.. 
In whom God's word hath place, 
The all-imiting faith disclose, — 

The all-endearing grace. 
2 Then shall the world, admiring, view 

The gather'd flock at rest; 
And own the Son divinely true, 
The saints divinely blest. 

698 L. M. 

One fold and one shepherd. 

GIVER of peace and unity, 
Send down thy mild, pacific Dove ; 
We all shall then in one agree. 
And breathe the spirit of thy love. 

2 We all shall think and speak the same 
Dehghtful lesson of tliy grace : 

One undivided Christ proclaim. 
And jointly glory in thy praise. 

3 let us take a softer mould. 
Blended and gather'd into thee; 

Under one Shepherd make one fold. 
Where all is love and harmony. 



COMMUNION OP SAINTS. 415 

4 Regard thine own eternal prayer. 
And send a peaceful answer down: 

To us thy Father's Name declare ; 
Unite and perfect us in one. 

5 So shall the world beheve and know 
That God hath sent thee from above, 

When thou art seen in us below, 
And every soul displays thy love. 

699 3d p. M. 4 6s <fe 2 8s. 

Bear ye one another's burdens. 

THOU God of truth and love, 
We seek thy perfect way. 
Ready thy choice to' approve, 
Thy providence to' obey ; 
Enter into thy wise design, 
And sweetly lose our will in thine. 

2 Why hast thou cast our lot 
In the same age and place? 

And why together brought 
To see each other's face; — 
To join with softest sympathy. 
And mix our friendly souls in thee? 

3 Didst thou not make us one. 
That we might one remain ; — 

Together travel on, 

And bear each other's pain ; — 
Till all thy utmost goodness prove. 
And rise renew'd in perfect love ? 

4 Surely thou didst unite 
Our kindred spirits here. 

That all hereafter might 

Before thy throne appear ; — 
Meet at the marriage of the Lamb, 
And all thy gracious love proclaim. 



416 CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP. 

5 Then let us ever bear 
The blessed end in view, 

And join with mutual care, 
To fight our passage through ; 
And kindly help each other on. 
Till all receive the starry crown. 

6 may thy Spuit seal 
Our souls unto that day ! 

With all thy fulness fill, 

And then transport away, — 
Away to om^ eternal rest. 
Away to our Redeemer's breast. 

700 C. M. 

And so fulfil the law of Christ. 

TRY us, God, and search the ground 
Of every smful heart : 
Whate'er of sin in us is found, 
bid it all depart. 

2 If to the right or left we stray, 
Leave us not comfortless ; 

But guide our feet into the way 
Of everlasting peace. 

3 Help us to help each other, Lord, 
Each other's cross to bear: 

Let each his friendly aid aflford, 
And feel his brother's care. 

4 Help us to build each other up ; 
Om' little stock improve : 

Increase our faith, confirm our hope, 
And perfect us in love. 

5 Up into thee, our living Head, 
Let us in all things grow, 

Till thou hast made us free indeed. 
And spotless here below. 



COMMUNION OF SAINTS. 417 

6 Then, when the mighty work is wrought, 

Receive thy ready bride : 
Give us in heaven a happy lot 

With all the sanctified. 

701 C. M. 

Safety in union, 

JESUS, great Shepherd of the sheep, 
To thee for help we fly : 
Thy Httle flock in safety keep, 
For ! the wolf is nigh. 

2 He comes, of hellish malice full, 
To scatter, tear, and slay; 

He seizes every straggling soul 
As his own lawful prey. 

3 Us into thy protection take, 
And gather with thine arm ; 

Unless the fold we first forsake, 
The wolf can never harm. 

4 We laugh to scorn liis cruel power. 
While by our Shepherd's side ; 

The sheep he never can devoui% 
Unless he first divide. 

5 do not suflfer him to part 
The souls that here agree ; 

But make us of one mind and heart. 
And keep us one in thee. 

6 Together let us sweetly live, — 
Together let us die ; 

And each a starry crown receive, 
And reign above the sky. 

702 L. M. 

Striving together for the faith of the Gospel, 

UNCHANGEABLE, ahnighty Lord, 
Our souls upon thy truth we stay; 
Accomplish now thy faithful word. 
And give, give us all one way. 
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418 CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP. 

2 let us all join hand in hand, 
Who seek redemption in thy blood; 

Fast in one mind and spirit stand, 
And build the temple of our God. 

3 Tliou only canst our wills control, — 
Our wild, unruly passions bind ; 

Tame the old Adam in our soul. 

And make us of one heart and mind. 

4 Speak but the reconciling word, 

The winds shall cease, the waves subside; 
We all shall praise our common Lord, — 
Our Jesus, and him crucified. 

703 . . c. M. 

See how these Christians love 1 

GIYER of concord. Prince of peace. 
Meek, lamb-like Son of God ! 
Bid our unruly passions cease. 
By thy atoning blood. 

2 Rebuke our rage ; our passions chide ; 
Our stubborn wills control ; 

Beat down our ^yi^ath, root out our pride. 
And calm each troubled soul. 

3 Subdue in us the carnal mind ; 
Its enmity destroy ; 

With cords of love our spirits bind. 
And melt us into joy. 

4 Us into closest union draw. 
And in our inward parts 

Let kindness sweetly write her law. 
And love command our hearts. 

5 Saviour, look down with pitying eyes; 
Our jarring wills control ; 

Let cordial, kind affections rise, 
And harmonize the soul. 



COMMUNION OF SAINTS. 419 

6 let us find the ancient way 

Our wond'ring foes to move, 
And force the heathen world to say, — 

See how these Christians love ! 

704 0. M. 

The loadstone of His love, 

JESUS, united by thy grace, 
And each to each endear'd, 
With confidence we seek thy face, 
And know our prayer is heard. 

2 Still let us own our common Lord, 
And bear thine easy yoke, — 

A band of love, a threefold cord, 
Wliich never can be broke. 

3 Make us into one spirit drink ; 
Baptize into thy name ; 

And let us always kindly think, 
And sweetly speak, the same. 

4 Touched by the loadstone of tliy love, 
Let all our hearts agree ; 

And ever toward each other move. 
And ever move toward thee. 

5 To thee, inseparably join'd. 
Let all our spirits clea\'e ; 

O may we all the loving mind 
That was in thee receive. 

705 5th P. M. 4. lines Vs. 

Of one heart and of one mind. 

JESUS, Lord, we look to thee; 
Let us in thy name agree ; 
Show thyself the Prince of Peace , 
Bid om- jars forever cease. 
2 By thy reconcilmg love, 
Eveiy stumbling-block remove ; 
Each to each unite, endear; 
Come, and spread thy banner here. 



420 CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP. 

3 Make us of one heart and mind, — 
Courteous, pitiful, and kind ; 
Lowly, meek, in thought and word, — 
Altogether like our Lord. 

4 Let us for each other care ; 
Each the other's burden bear: 
To thy Church the pattern give ; 
Show how true believers live. 

5 Free from anger and from pride, 
Let us thus in God abide ; 

All the depths of love express, — 
All the heights of hoUness. 

6 Let us then with joy remove 
To the family above ; 

On the wings of angels fly ; 
Show how true believers die. 

706 '7th P. M. 8 lines Is. 

Many, but one. 

CHRIST, from whom all blessings flow, 
Perfecting the saints below. 
Hear us, who thy nature share, — 
Who thy mystic body are. 
Join us, in one spirit join ; 
Let us still receive of thine : 
Still for more on thee we call, 
Thou who fillest all in all. 

2 Move, and actuate, and guide: 
Divers gifts to each divide : 
Placed according to thy will. 
Let us all om- work fulfil : 
Never from our oflSce move : 
Needful to each other prove : 
Let us daily growth receive, — 
More and more in Jesus live. 



COMMUNION OF SAINTS. 421 

3 Sweetly may we all agree, 
Touched ^vith softest sympathy; 
Kindly for each other care ; 
Every member feel its share. 
Many are we now and one. 
We Avho Jesus have put on: 
Names, and sects, and parties fall: 
Thou, Christ, art all in all. 



707 S. M. 

Meeting^ after absence. 

AND are we yet alive. 
And see each other's face? 
Glory and praise to Jesus give. 

For his redeeming grace. 
Preserved by power divine 

To full salvation here. 
Again in Jesus' praise we join, 
And in his sight appear. 

2 What troubles have we seen! 
What conflicts have we past ! 

Fightings without, and fears within, 
Since we assembled last ! 

But out of all the Lord 

Hath brought us by his love ; 

And still he doth liis help afford, 
And hides our life above. 

3 Then let us make our boast 
Of his redeeming power. 

Which saves us to the uttermost. 
Till we can sin no more : 

Let us take up the cross. 
Till we the crown obtain; 

And gladly reckon all things loss. 
So we may Jesus gain. 



422 CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP. 

708 C. M. 

We shall see Him as he is. 

THE heavenly treasure now we have 
In a vile house of clay ; 
But Christ will to the utmost save, 
And keep us to that day. 

2 Our souls are in his mighty hand, 
And he shall keep them still; 

And you and I shall sm^ely stand 
With him on Zion's hill. 

3 Him eye to eye we there shall see; 
Our face like his shall shine : 

what a glorious company. 
When saints and angels join ! 

4 what a joyful meeting there ! 
In robes of white array'd, 

Palms in our hands we all shall bear. 
And crowns upon our head. 

5 Then let us lawfully contend. 
And fight our passage through; 

Bear in our faithful minds the end. 
And keep the prize in view. 

709 . L. M. 

Welcome to Church fellowship. 

BRETHREN in Christ, and well beloved, 
To Jesus and his servants dear. 
Enter, and show yourselves approved ; 
Enter, and find that God is here. 

2 Welcome from earth : lo, the right hand 
Of fellowship to you we give ; 

With open hearts and hands we stand, 
And you in Jesus' name receive. 

3 Jesus, attend ; thyself reveal ; 

Are we not met in thy great name? 
Thee in the midst we wait to feel ; 
We wait to catch the spreading flame. 



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4 Truly oui* fellowship below 

With thee and with the Father is : 
In thee eternal hfe we know, 
And heaven's unutterable bUss. 

5 Though but in part we know thee here, 
We wait thy commg from above; 

And we shall then behold thee near, 
And be forever lost in love. 



LOVE-FEAST. 



710 L. M. 

The heavenly Guest invited, 

SAVIOUR of all, to thee we bow, 
And own thee faithful to thy word ; 
We hear thy voice, and open now 
Our hearts to entertain our Lord. 

2 Come in, come in, thou heavenly Guest; 
Delight in what thyself hast given ; 

On thy own gifts and graces feast, 

And make the contrite heart thy heaven. 

3 Smell the sweet odour of our prayers ; 
Our sacrifice of praise approve ; 

And treasure up our gracious tears, 
Who rest in thy redeeming love. 

4 Beneath thy shadow let us sit; 

Call us thy friends, and love, and bride ; 
And bid us freely drink and eat 
Thy dainties, and be satisfied. 

711 CM. 

Perfect liarmony and joy unspeakable, 

ALL praise to our redeeming Lord, 
Who joins us by his grace, 
And bids us, each to each restored. 
Together seek his face. 



424 CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP. 

2 He bids ns build each other up ; 
And, gather'd into one, 

To our high calling's glorious hope, 
We hand in hand go on. 

3 The gift which he on one bestows, 
We all dehght to prove ; 

The grace through every vessel flows. 
In purest streams of love. 

4 E'en now we think and speak the same, 
And cordially agree, — 

United all, through Jesus' name. 
In perfect harmony. 

5 We all partake the joy of one ; 
The common peace we feel; 

A peace to sensual minds unknoAvn, — 
A joy unspeakable. 

6 And if our fellowship below 
In Jesus be so sweet, 

What height of rapture shall we know 
When round his throne we meet ! 

712 S. M. 

Sympathy and mutual love, 

BLEST be the tie that binds 
Our hearts in Christian love ; 
The fellowship of kindred minds 
Is like to that above. 

2 Before our Father's throne, 
We pour our ardent prayers ; 

Our fears, our hopes, our aims are one, — 
Our comforts and our cares. 

3 We share our mutual woes ; 
Our mutual burdens bear; 

And often for each other flows 
The sympathizing tear. 



LOVE-FEAST. 425 

4 When we asunder part, 
It gives us inward pain ; 

But we shall still be join'd in heart, 
And hope to meet again. 

5 This glorious hope revives 
Our coui'age by the way; 

While each in expectation lives, 
And longs to see the day. 

6 From sorrow, toil, and pain, 
And sin we shall be free ; 

And perfect love and friendship reign 
Through all eternity. 

713 4th P. M. 886, 886. 
Divine conformity. 

JESUS, fulfil our one deshc, 
And spread the spark of living fire 
Through every hallowed breast : 
Bless with divine conformity. 
And give us now to find in thee 
Our everlasting rest. 

2 that we now the power might feel, 
To do on earth thy blessed will, 

As angels do above : — 
To walk in thee, the Truth, the Way, 
And ever perfectly obey 

Thy sweet constraining love. 

714 6th P. M. 6 lines Vs. 

Hand in hand to heaven. 

CENTRE of our hopes thou art; 
End of our enlarged desires : 
Stamp thine image on our heart ; 

Fill us now with heavenly fires: 
Join'd to thee by love divine. 
Seal our souls forever thine. 



426 CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP. 

2 All our works in thee be wrought, — 
Levell'd at one common aim: 

Every word and every thought 
Purge in the refining flame : 
Lead us, through the paths of peace, 
On to perfect hohness. 

3 Let us all together rise, — 
To thy glorious life restored; 

Here regain our Paradise, — 

Here prepare to meet our Lord: 
Here enjoy the earnest given : 
Travel hand in hand to heaven. 

715 5th P. M. 4 lines 7s. 
One in Christ Jesus and with each other. 

FATHER, at thy footstool see 
Those who now are one in thee : 
Draw us by thy grace alone : 
Give, give us to thy Son. 

2 Jesus, Friend of human kind, 
Let us in thy name be join'd ; 
Each to each unite and bless ; 
Keep us still in perfect peace. 

3 Heavenly, all-alluring Dove, 
Shed thy overshadowing love ; 
Love, the sealing grace, impart ; 
Dwell within our single heart. 

4 Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, 
Be to us what Adam lost; 

Let us in thine image rise ; 
Give us back our Paradise. 

716 .... c. M. 

Rejoicing in hope. 

LIFT up your hearts to thmgs above, 
Ye folFwers of the Lamb, 
And join with us to praise his Icve, 
And glorify his Name. 



LOVE-FEAST. 427 

2 To Jesus' Name give tlianks and sing, 
Whose mercies never end : 

Rejoice ! rejoice ! the Lord is King ; 
The King is now oui* Fiiend. 

3 We for his sake count all things loss ; 
On earthly good look down; 

And joyfully sustain the cross, 
Till we receive the crown. 

4 let us stir each other up, 

Our faith by works to' approve, — 
By holy, puiifying hope, 
And the sweet task of love. 

5 Let all who for the promise wait. 
The Holy Ghost receive ; 

And, raised to our unsinning state. 
With God in Eden Uve : — 

6 Live, till the Lord in glory come. 
And wait his heaven to share : 

He now is fitting up your home ; 
Go on, we '11 meet you there. 

717 4th P. M. 880,886. 

Unity of spirit and of purpose. 

COME, wisdom, power, and grace divuie ; 
Come, Jesus, in thy name to join 
A happy, chosen band ; 
Who fain would prove thine utmost will, 
And all thy righteous laws fulfil. 
In love's benign command. 

2 If pure essential love thou art. 
Thy nature into every heart. 

Thy loving self, inspire : 
Bid all our simple souls be one, 
United in a bond unknown. 

Baptized with heavenly fire. 



428 CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP. 

3 Still may we to oui' centre tend. 

To spread thy praise our common end, 

To help each other on ; 
Companions through tlie wilderness, 
To share a moment's pain, and seize 

An everlasting crown. 

4 Jesus, our tendered souls prepare ; 
Infuse the softest social care, — 

The warmest charity ; 
The bowels of our bleeding Lamb, 
The virtues of thy wondrous name. 

The heart that was in thee. 

5 Supply what every member wants; 
To found the fellowship of saints. 

Thy Spirit, Lord, supply; 
So shall we all thy love receive. 
Together to thy glory live. 

And to thy glory die. 

718 ^th P. M. 8 lines 7s. 

Witnesses for Jesus. 

COME, and let us sweetly join, 
Christ to praise in hymns divine: 
Give we all, mth one accord, 
Glory to our common Lord : 
Hands, and hearts, and voices raise ; 
Sing as in the ancient days ; 
Ante-date the joys above, — 
Celebrate the feast of love. 

2 Strive we, in affection strive ; 
Let the purer flame revive ; 
Such as in the martyrs glow'd. 
Dying champions for their God : 
We like them may live and love ; 
Caird we are their joys to prove ; 
Saved with them from future wrath ; 
Partners of like precious faitli. 



LOVE-FEAST. 429 

3 Sing we then in Jesus' Name, 
Now as yesterday the same ; 
One in every time and place, 
Full for all of truth and grace : 
We for Christ, our Master, stand, 
Lights in a benighted land: 
We our dying Lord confess; 
We are Jesus' witnesses. 

719 '7th P. M. 8 lines 7s. 

The feast of endless love. 

COME, thou high and lofty Lord, 
Lowly, meek, incarnate Word; 
Humbly stoop to earth again ; 
Come, and visit abject man. 
Jesus, dear expected guest, • 
Thou art bidden to the feast: 
For thyself our hearts prepare ; 
Come, and sit, and banquet there. 

2 Jesus, we thy promise claim: 
We are met m thy great name: 
In the midst do thou appear ; 
Manifest thy presence here. 
Sanctify us. Lord, and bless ; 
Breathe thy Spirit, give thy peace ; 
Tliou thyself within us move : 
Make our feast a feast of love. 

3 Let the fruits of grace abound ; 
Let us in thy bowels sound ; 
Faith, and love, and joy increase, — 
Temperance and gentleness ; 
Plant in us thy humble mind. 
Patient, pitiful, and kind : 

Meek and lowly let us be, — - 
Full of goodness, full of thee. 



430 CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP. 

4 Make us all in tliee complete ; 
Make us all for glory meet ; 
Meet to' appear before th)^ siglit, 
Partners with the saints in lio-jit. 

o 

Call, call us each by name, 
To the marriage of the Lamb : 
Let us lean upon thy breast ; 
Love be there our endless feast. 

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MiUual love the bond of union. 

¥HILE we walk with God in hght, 
God our hearts doth still unite: 
Dearest fellowship we prove, — 
Fellowship in Jesus' love : 
Sweetly each, with each combined, 
In the bonds of duty join'd. 
Feels the cleansing blood applied, — 
Daily feels that Christ hath died. 

2 Still, Lord, om- faith increase ; 
Cleanse from all unrirfiteousness : 

o 

Thee the unholy cannot see ; 
Make, make us meet for thee : 
Every vile affection kill ; 
Root out every seed of ill ; 
Utterly abolish sin; 
Write thy law of love within. 

3 Hence may all om- actions flow; 
Love the proof that Christ we know ; 
Mutual love the token be, 

Lord, that we belong to thee : 
Love, thine image, love impart; 
Stamp it now on every heart : 
Only love to us be given : 
Lord, we ask no other heaven. 



DUTIES AND TRIALS. 



THE WARFARE. 

721 L- M. 

The panoply of truth, 

BEHOLD the Christian warrior stand 
In all the armour of his God ; 
The Spirit's sword is in his hand, 

His feet are with the Gospel shod ; — 

2 In panoply of truth complete, 
Salvation's helmet on his head ; 

With righteousness a breast- plate meet, 

And faith's broad shield before him spread ;— 

3 Undaunted to the field he goes ; 
Yet vain were skill and valour there, 

Unless, to foil his legion foes, 

He takes the trustiest weapon, prayer. 

4 Thus, stronor in his Redeemer's strenorth, 
Sm, death, and hell, he tramples down; 

Fights the good fight, and wins at length. 
Through mercy, an immortal crown. 

722 L. M. 

The sword and shield. 

ARM me \vith thy whole armour. Lord ; 
Support my weakness with thy might; 
Gird on my thigh thy conqu'ring sword, 

And shield me in the threat'ninor fiorht : 
From faith to faith, from grace to grace, 

So in thy strength shall I go on ; 
Till heaven and eaith flee from thy face, 
And glory end what grace begun. 



432 DUTIES AND TRIALS. 

723 S. M. 

The standard of the cross. 

HARK, how the watchmen cry ! 
Attend the trumpet's sound ; 
Stand to your arms, the foe is nigh, — 

The powers of hell surround. 
Who bow to Christ's command, 

Your arms and heails prepare ; 
The day of battle is at hand, — 
Go forth to glorious war. 

2 See on the mountain top 
The standard of your God ; 

In Jesus' name 'tis lifted up, 
All stain'd with hallow'd blood. 

His standard-bearei^, now 
To all the nations call : 

To Jesus' cross, ye nations, bow ; 
He bore the cross for all. 

3 Go up with Christ your Head ; 
Your Captain's footsteps see ; 

Follow your Captain, and be led 

To certain victory. 
All power to him is given ; 

He ever reigns the same : 
Salvation, happiness, and heaven, 

Are all in Jesus' Name. 

724 S. M. 

Continued. — Spiritual enemies to he encountered, 

ANGELS our march oppose. 
Who still in strength excel, — 
Our secret, sworn, eternal foes, 

Countless, invisible; 
From thrones of glory driven. 

By flaming vengeance hurl'd, 
They throng the air, and darken heaven. 
And rule this lower world. 



THE WARFARR 438 

2 But shall believers fear? 

But shall believers fly? 
Or see the bloody cross appear, 

And all their powers defy? 
By all helFs host withstood, 

We all hell's host overthrow; 
And, conqu'ring them through Jesus' blood. 

We on to conquer go. 

725 S. M. 

The whole arniour of God. 

SOLDIERS of Christ, arise. 
And put your armoiu' on, 
Strong in the strength which God supplies 

Through his eternal Son; 
Strong in the Lord of Hosts, 
And in his mighty power, 
Who in the strength of Jesus trusts, 
Is more than conqueror. 

2 Stand then in his great might, 
With all his strength endued ; 

But take, to arm you for the fight. 

The panoply of God : 
That having all things done, 

And all your conflicts past. 
Ye may o'ercome, through Christ alone, 

And stand entire at last. 

3 Leave no unguarded place, — 
No weakness of the soul ; 

Take every virtue, every grace, 

And fortify tlie whole : 
Indissolubly jom'd. 

To battle all proceed ; 
But arm youi-selves with all the mind 

That was m Christ your Head. 
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434 DUTIES ANH TRIALS. 

726 s. M. 

The shield of faith, 

SOLDIERS of Christ, lay hold 
On faith's victorious shield ; 
Ann'd with that adamant and gold. 

Be sure to win the field : 
If faith surround your heart, 

Satan shall be subdued ; 
Repeird his every fiery dart, 

And quenched mth Jesus' blood. 

2 Jesus hath died for you ; 

What can his love withstand? 
Believe, hold fast your shield, and who 

Shall pluck you from his hand ? 
Beheve that Jesus reigns; 

All power to him is given : 
Beheve, till freed from sin's remains; 

Beheve yourselves to heaven. 

727 S. M. 

Courage ensures victory. 

URGE on your rapid com'se, 
Ye blood-besprinkled bands ; 
The heavenly kingdom sufiers force ; 

'Tis seized by violent hands : 
See there the starry crown 

That ghtters through the skies; 
Satan, the world, and sin, tread down. 
And take the glorious prize. 

2 Through much distress and pain. 

Through many a conflict here. 
Through blood, ye must the entrance gain, 

Yet, disdain to fear: 
Courage, — your Captain cries, 

(Who all your toil foreknew, — ) 
Toil ye shall have, yet all despise ; 

I have o'ercome for you. 



THE WARFARE. 435 

S The world cannot withstand 

Its ancient Conqueror; 
The world must sink beneath the Hand 

Which arms us for the war : 
Tliis is the victory, — 

Before our faith they fall ; 
Jesus hath died for you and me; 

Believe, and conquer all. 

728 S. M. 

The well-fought day. 

PRAY, without ceasing, pray, 
(Your Captain gives the word ;) 
His summons cheerfully obey. 

And call upon the Lord : 
To God your every want 

In instant prayer display ; 
Pray always ; pray, and never faint ; 
Pray, without ceasing, pray. 

2 In fellowship, — alone, 

To God with faith draw near ; 
Approach his courts, besiege his thione 

With all the power of prayer : 
His mercy now implore. 

And now show forth his praise; 
In shouts, or silent awe, adore 

His miracles of grace. 

3 From strength to strength go on; 
Wrestle, and fight, and pray; 

Tread all the powers of darkness down. 
And win the well-fought day : 

Still let the Spirit cry. 
In all his soldiers, — Come, 

Till Christ the Lord descend from high, 
And take the conqu'rors home. 



436 DUTIES AND TRIALS. 

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Sober vigilance, 

THIS slumber from my spirit sliake ; 
Warn'd by the Spirit's inward call, 
Let me to righteousness awake, 

And pray that I may never fall ; 
Or give to sin or Satan place, 
But walk in all thy righteous ways. 

2 wouldst thou. Lord, thy servant guard 
'Gainst every knoAvn or secret foe ; 

A mind for all assaults prepared, 

A sober vigilance bestow; 
Ever apprized of danger nigh. 
And when to fight and when to fly. 

3 never suffer me to sleep 
Secure within the verge of hell ; 

But still my watchful sphit keep 
In lowly awe and loving zeal; 
And bless me with a godly fear. 
And plant that guardian angel here. 

4 Attended by that sacred dread. 
And wise from evil to depart, 

Let me from strength to strength proceed. 

And rise to purity of heart : 
Through all the paths of duty move, 
From humble faith to perfect love. 

730 L. M. 

Heavenly zeal, 

OKING of glory, thy rich grace 
Our feeble thought surpasses far; 
Yea, e'en our crimes, though numberless, 

Less num'rous than thy mercies are. 
2 Still, Lord, thy saving health display. 

And arm oiu* souls with heavenly zeal; 
So, fearless, shall we urge our way 

Through all the powers of eart<h and bell 



THE WARFARE. 437 

731 S. M. 

Perseverance. 

MY soul, be on thy guard ; 
Ten thousand foes arise; 
The hosts of sin are pressing hard 
To draw thee from the skies. 

2 watch, and fight, and pray ; 
The battle ne'er give o'er ; 

Renew it boldly every day. 
And help divine implore. 

3 Ne'er think the vict'ry won. 
Nor lay thine armour down: 

The work of faith will not be done. 
Till thou obtain the crown. 

4 Then persevere till death 
Shall bring thee to thy God ; 

He '11 take thee, at thy parting breath, 
To his divine abode. 

732 S. M. 

The mind that was in Christ. 

EQUIP me for the war, 
And teach my hands to fight ; 
My simple, upright heart prepare. 
And guide my words aright. 

2 Control my every thought ; 
My whole of sia remove : 

Let all my works in thee be wi'ought ; 
Let all be wrought in love. 

3 arm me with the mind. 
Meek Lamb, that was in thee ; 

And let my knowiQg zeal be joia'd 
With perfect charity. 

4 With calm and temper'd zeal 
Let me enforce thy call ; 

And vindicate thy gracious will, 
Which oflfers life to all. 



438 DUTIES AND TRIALS. 

5 may I love like thee, — 
In all thy footsteps tread ; 

Thou hatest all iniquity, 

But nothing thou hast made. 

6 may I learn the art. 
With meekness to reprove ; 

To hate the sin with all my heart, 
But still the sinner love. 

733 1st p. M. 6 lines 8s. 
The victory that overcometh the world. 

SURROUNDED by a host of foes, 
Storm'd by a host of foes within, 
Nor swift to flee, nor strong to' oppose, 

Single against hell, earth, and sin: 
Single, yet undismayed, I am ; 

1 dare believe in Jesus' name. 

2 What though a thousand hosts engage 
A thousand worlds, my soul to shake; 

I have a shield shall quell their rage, 

And drive the alien armies back: 
Portray'd, it bears a bleeding Lamb; 

1 dare beUeve in Jesus' name. 

734 C. M. 

Faith sees the final triumph, 

AM I a soldier of the cross, — 
A foll'wer of the Lamb, — 
And shall I fear to own his cause. 
Or blush to speak his name? 

2 Must I be carried to the skies 
On flowery beds of ease ; 

While others fought to win the prijjti, 
And sail'd through bloody seas? 

3 Are there no foes for me to face? 
Must I not stem the flood? 

Is this vile world a friend to grace. 
To help me on to God ? 



THE WARFARE. 439 

4 Since I must fight if I would reign. 
Increase my courage, Lord ; 

1 '11 bear the toil, endure the pain, 

Supported by thy word. 

5 Thy saints in all this glorious war 
Shall conquer, though they die : 

They see the triumph from afar, — 
By faith they bring it nigh. 

6 When that illustrious day shall rise. 
And all thy armies shine 

In robes of vict'ry through the skies, 
The glory shall be thine. 

735 s. M. 

The violent take it hy force, 

OMAY thy powerful word 
Inspire a feeble worm 
To rush into thy kingdom, Lord, 
And take it as by storm. 

2 may we all improve 
The grace already given. 

To seize the crown of perfect love. 
And scale the mount of heaven. 

736 .... C-M. 

Heavenly rest in anticipation. 

¥HEN I can read my title clear 
To mansions in the skies, 

1 '11 bid farewell to every fear, 

And wipe my weeping eyes. 

2 Should earth against my soul engage, 
And fiery darts be liurl'd, 

Then I can smile at Satan's rage. 
And face a frowning world. 

3 Let cares like a wild deluge come, 
Let storms of sorrow fall, — 

So I but safely reach my home. 
My God, my heaven, my all. 



440 DUTIES AND TRIALS. 

4 There I shall bathe my weary soul 

In seas of heavenly rest, 
And not a wave of trouble roll 

Across my peaceful breast. 

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No catcse for fear. 

GOD is my strong salvation; 
What foe have I to fear? 
In darkness and temptation. 

My light, my help, is near: 
Though hosts encamp around me, 

Firm in the fight I stand ; 
What terror can confound me. 

With God at my right hand ? 
2 Place on the Lord reliance ; 

My soul, with courage wait; 
His truth be thine affiance. 

When faint and desolate; 
His might thy heart shall strengthen, 

His love thy joy increase ; 
Mercy thy days shall lengthen; 

The Lord will give thee peace. 

738 S. M. 

Victory. 

I THE good fight have fought,— 
when shall I declare ! 
The vict'ry by my Saviour got, 
I long with Paul to share. 

2 may I triumph so. 
When all my warfare 's past ; 

And) dying, find my latest foe 
Under my feet at last ! 

3 This blessed word be mine. 
Just as the port is gain'd, — 

Kept by the power of grace divine, 
I have the faith maintain'd. 



THE WARFARE 441 

4 The' apostles of my Lord, 

To whom it first was given, 
They could not speak a greater word. 

Nor all the saints in heaven. 

739 S. M. 

The universal victory of the cross. 

JESUS, the Conqu'ror, reigns, 
In glorious strength array'd ; 
His kino-dom over all maintains, 

And bids the earth be glad : 
Ye sons of men, rejoice 

In Jesus' mighty love ; 
Lift up your heart, lift up your voice, 

To Him who rules above. 
2 Extol his kingly power; 

Kiss the exalted Son, 
Who died, and lives to die no more, 

Hiorh on his Father's throne : 

o 

Our Advocate with God, 

He undertakes our cause, 
Ajid spreads through all the earth abroad 

The vict'ry of his cross. 

740 S. M. 

Victory is on the Lord's side. 

ARISE, ye saints, arise ! 
The Lord our leader is ; 
The foe before his banner flies, 
Aaid A^ctory is His. 

2 We follow thee, our Guide, 
Our Saviour, and our King; 

We follow thee, through grace supplied 
From heaven's eternal spring. 

3 We soon shall see the day 
When all om* toils shaU cease ; 

When we shall cast our arms away. 
And dwell in endless peace. 



4^2 DUTIES AND TKIALS. 

4 This hope supports us here; 
It makes our burdens light: 

'Twill serve our drooping hearts to cheer, 
Till faith shall end in sight : — 

5 Till, of the prize possessed, 
We hear of war no more ; 

And ever with our Leader rest, 
On yonder peaceful shore. 

741 22d P. M. 88,88,84 

Crowns cast at the feet of Jesus. 

HARK ! how the gospel trumpet sounds, 
As through the world the echo bounds, 
Proclaiming to a ruin'd race, 
That through the riches of His grace, 
Sinnere may see the Saviour's face. 
In endless day. 

2 Hail, Jesus! all victorious Lord! 
Be thou by all mankind adored! 
For us didst thou the figlit maintain, 
And o'er our foes the vict'ry gain, 
That we, with thee, might ever reign, 

In endless day. 

3 And when, through grace, our course is run. 
The battle fought, the vict'ry won, 

Then crowns unfading we shall wear, 
The glory of thy kingdom share. 
With tliee, our glorious leader, there. 
In endless day. 

4 Then, in thy presence, heavenly King, 
In loftier strains thy praise we'll sing. 
When with the blood-bought hosts we meet. 
Triumphant there, in bliss complete. 

And cast our crowns before thy feet, 
In endless day. 



PATIENCE AND RESIGNATION. 443 



PATIENCE AND RESIGNATION. 

742 s. M. 

Tribulation to he expected. 

AS strangers here below, 
With various woes oppress'd, 
We must through tribulation go 
To oui' eternal rest. 

2 Thus Christ, our glorious Head, 
Ascended to his throne : — 

Why should his servants fear to tread 
The way their Lord has gone? 

3 The path to glory hes 
Through conflict and distress : — 

But joyful we at length shall rise, 
The kingdom to possess. 

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Christ our pattern and example, 

SAVIOUR of all, what hast thou done? 
What hast thou suffer'd on the tree ? 
Why didst thou groan thy mortal groan, 

Obedient unto death for me? 
The myst'ry of thy passion show, — 
The end of all thy griefs below. 

2 Pardon, and grace, and heaven to buy. 
My bleeding sacrifice expired; 

But didst thou not my pattern die. 
That, by thy glorious Spirit fired, 
Faithful to death I might endure, 
And make the crown by suff'ring sure? 

3 Thou didst the meek example leave. 
That I might in thy footsteps tread; 

Might like the Man of Sorrows grieve. 

And groan, and bow with thee my Head: 
Thy dying in my body bear, 
And all thy state of suflp'ring share. 



444 DUTIES AKD TRIALS 

744 13tli P. M. 1010,1111. 

The Lord will provide, 

THOUGH troubles assail, and dangers afFright, 
Though friends should all fail, and foes all 
unite, 
Yet one thing secures us, whatever betide, 
The promise assures us, — The Lord will provide. 

2 The bhds, without barn or storehouse, are fed ; 
From them let us learn to trust for om' bread : 
His saints what is fitting shall ne'er be denied, 
So long as 'tis written, — The Lord will provide. 

3 When Satan appears to stop up our path, 
And fills us with fears, we triumph by faith ; 
He cannot take from us (though oft he has tried) 
The heart-cheering promise, — The Lord will pro- 
vide. 

4 He tells us we 're weak, — our hope is in vain ; 
The good that we seek we ne'er shall obtain : 
But when such suggestions our graces have tried, 
This answers all questions, — The Lord will pro- 
vide. 

5 No strength of our own, nor goodness we claim: 
Our trust is all thrown on Jesiis's Name ; 

Li this our strong tower for safety we hide ; 
The Lord is our power, — The Lord will provide. 

6 When life sinks apace, and death is in view, 
The word of his grace shall comfort us through: 
Not fearing or doubting, with Christ on otir side. 
We hope to die shouting, — The Lord will provide. 

745 . c. M. 

Light shining out of darkness. 

GOD moves in a mysterious way, 
His wonders to perform; 
He plants his footsteps in the sea. 
And rides upon the storm. 



PATIENCE AND RESIGNATION 445 

2 Deep in unfathomable mines 
Of never-failing skill, 

He treasm-es up his bright designs, 
And works his sovereign will. 

3 Ye feaiful saints, fresh courage take: 
The clouds ye so much dread 

Are big with mercy, and shall break 
In blessings on your head. 

4 Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, 
But trust him for his grace ; 

Behmd a frowning providence 
He hides a smiling face. 

5 His pm-poses will ripen fast. 
Unfolding eveiy hour: 

The bud may have a bitter taste, 
But sweet will be the flower. 

6 Blind imbelief is sure to err, 
And scan his work in vain : 

God is his own interpreter, 
And he will make it plain. 

746 L. M. 

A blessing for those who mourn. 

DEEM not that they are blest alone 
Whose hves a peaceful tenor keep ; 
For God, who pities man, has sho^vn 
A blessing for the eyes that weep. 

2 The hght of smiles shall fill again 
The lids that overflow with tears : 

And weary hours of wo and pain, 
Are promises of happier years. 

3 There is a day of sunny rest. 

For every dark and troubled night; 

Though grief may bide an evening guest, 

Yet joy shall come with early light. 



44G DUTIES AND TRIALS. 

4 Nor let the good man's trust depart, 
Though hfe its common gifts deny, — 

Though with a pierced and broken heart 
And spurn'd of men, he goes to die. 

5 For God has mark'd each son-owing day, 
And number'd every secret tear ; 

And heaven's eternal bliss shall pay 
For all his children sujBfer here. 

747 c. M 

At evejiing time it shall he light, 

¥E journey through a vale of tears. 
By many a cloud o'ercast; 
And worldly cares, and worldly fears. 
Go with us to the last. 

2 Not to the last ! Thy word hath said. 
Could we but read aright, — 

Poor pilgrim, lift in hope thy head ; 
At eve it shall be light ! 

3 Though earth-bom shadows now may shi-aua 
Thy thorny path awhile, 

God's blessed word can part each cloud, 
And bid the sunshine smile. 

4 Only beheve, in living faith. 
His love and power di\ane; 

And ere thy sun shall set in death. 
His light shall round thee shine. 

5 When tempest clouds are dark on high. 
His bow of love and peace 

Shines sweetly in the vaulted sky, — 
A pledge that storms shall cease. 

6 Hold on thy way, with hope unchill'd. 
By faith and not by sight. 

And thou shalt own his word fulfill'd, — 
At eve it shall be lisfht. 



PATIENCE AND RESIGNATION. 447 

748 c. M. 

The only solace in sorrow. 

OTHOU who driest the mourner's tear. 
How dark this world would be, 
If, when deceived and wounded here, 
We could not fly to thee. 

2 The friends who in our sunshine live. 
When winter comes, are flown; 

And he who has but tears to give, 
Must weep those tears alone. 

3 But Christ can heal that broken heart. 
Which, like the plants that throw 

Their fragrance from the wounded part, 
Breathes sweetness out of wo. 

4 who could bear life's stormy doom, 
Did not His wing of love 

Come brightly wafting through the gloom. 
Our peace-branch from above. 

5 Then sorrow, touch'd by Him, grows bright. 
With more than rapture's ray; 

As darkness shows us worlds of light. 
We never saw by day. 

749 c. M. 

Crosses are blessings. 

»'^INCE all the varying scenes of time 
God's watchful eye surveys, 
0, who so wise to choose om- lot. 
Or to appoint our ways ? 

2 Good, when he gives — supremely good. 
Nor less when he denies ; 

E'en crosses, from his sov'reign hand. 
Are blessings in disguise. 

3 Why should we doubt a Father's love. 
So constant and so kind? 

To his unerring, gracious will 
Be every wish resigned. 



448 DUTIES AND TRIAI^. 

750 CM. 

Radiant hope. 

OWHO, in such a world as this, 
Could bear his lot of pain, 
Did not one radiant hope of bliss 

Unclouded yet remain? 
That hope the sovereign Lord has given, 

Who reigns above the skies; 
Hope that unites the soul to heaven 

By faith's endeaiing ties. 
2 Each care, each ill of mortal birth. 

Is sent in pitying love, 
To lift the ling'ring heart from earth, 

And speed its flight above* 
And every pang that wrings the breast. 

And every joy that dies, 
Tell us to seek a purer rest, 

And trust to holier ties. 

751 L. M. 

God's presence with his people. 

¥HEN Israel, of the Lord beloved. 
Out from the land of bondage came, 
Her father's God before her moved. 
An awful guide, in smoke and flame. 

2 By day, along the astonish'd lands 
The cloudy pillar ghded slow ; 

By night, Arabia's crimson'd sands 
Retui'n'd the fiery column's glow. 

3 Thus present still, though now unseen. 
When brightly shines the prosp'rous day, 

Be thoughts of thee a cloudy screen. 
To temper the deceitful ray. 

4 And O, when gathers on our path, 

In shade and storm, the frequent night. 
Be thou, long-suff''ring, slow to wi-ath, 
A bumino[ and a shininof lio-ht. 



PATIENCE AND RESIGN ATIOS. 44J> 

752 0. M. 

Remember me I 

OTHOU from whom all goodness flows, 
I lift my soul to thee ; 
In all my sorrows, conflicts, woes, 
Lord, remember me. 

2 If, for thy sake, upon my name 
Reproach and shame shall be, 

1 '11 hail reproach, and welcome shame ; 

Lord, remember me. 

3 When worn with pain, disease, and grief, 
This feeble body see ; 

Grant patience, rest, and kind reUef ; 

Lord, remember me. 

4 When, in the solemn horn* of death, 

1 wait thy just decree. 

Be this the prayer of my last breath, — 
Lord, remember me. 

5 And when before thy throne I stand, 
And lift my soul to thee, 

Then, with the saints at thy right hand, 
Lord, remember me. 

75 B L. M. 

Remember Calvary ! 

MY suff" 'rings all to thee are known, 
Tempted m every point Uke me ; 
Regard my grief, regard thine own : 
Jesus, remember Calvary ! 

2 For whom didst thou the cross endure? 
Who nail'd thy body to the tree? 

Did not thy death my Hfe procure? 
let thy mercy answer me. 

3 Art thou not fouch'd with human wo? 
Hath pity left the Son of man ? 

Dost thou not all my sorrows know. 
And claim a share in all mv pain? 

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450 DUTIES AND TRIALS. 

4 Thou wilt not break a bruised reed, 
Or quench the smallest spark of grace. 

Till through the soul thy power is spread. 
Thy all-victorious righteousness. 

5 The day of small and feeble things, 
I know thou never wilt despise; 

1 know, with healing in his wings, 
The Sun of righteousness shall rise. 

754 c. M. 

In fear and trembling. 

FATHER of lights, thy needful aid 
To us that ask, impart ; 
Mistrustful of om^selves, afraid 
Of our own treach'rous heart. 

2 O'erwhelm'd with justest fear, again 
To thee for help we call : 

Where many mightier have been slain, 
By thee unsaved, we fall. 

3 Ah ! what avails superior light. 
Without superior love; 

We see the truth, we judge aright. 
And wisdom's ways approve. 

4 In spite of our resolves, we fear 
Our own infirmity; 

And tremble at the trial near. 
And cry, God, to thee ! 

6 Our only help in danger's hour. 
Our only strength thou art; 

Above the world and Satan's power. 
And greater than our heart. 

6 Us from ourselves thou canst secure, 

In nature's slipp'ry ways ; 
And make our feeble footsteps sure, 

By thy sufficient grace 



PATIENCE AND RESIGNATION. ^51 

755 • LM. 

Jems, the friend of the friendless. 
^^ OD of my life, to thee I call ; 
iJ Afflicted, at thy feet I fall ; 
When the great water-floods prevail, 
Leave not my trembling heart to fail. 

2 Friend of the friendless, and the faint. 
Where should I lodge my deep complaint? 
Where — but with thee, whose open door 
Invites the helpless and the poor? 

3 Did ever mourner plead with thee. 
And thou refuse that mourner's plea? 
Does not the promise still remain, 
That none shall seek thy face in vain ? 

4 Poor I may be — despised, forgot. 
Yet God, my God, forgets me not ; 
And he is safe, and must succeed, 
For whom the Saviour deigns to plead. 

756 . L. M. 

Meekness and patience. 

THOU Lamb of God, thou Piince of peace, 
For thee my thirsty soul doth pine ; 
My longing heart implores thy grace ; 
make me in thy hkeness shine. 

2 With fraudless, even, humble mind, 
Thy will in all things may I see; 

In love be every wish resign'd. 

And hallow'd my whole heart to thee. 

3 When pain o'er my weak flesh prevails. 
With lamb-hke patience arm my breast; 

When grief my wounded soul assails, 
In lowly meekness may I rest. 

4 Close by thy side still may I keep, 
Howe'er life's various currents flow ; 

With steadfast eye mark every step, 
And follow where my Lord doth go. 



452 DUTIES AND TRxAL^<. 

5 Thou, Lord, the dreadful fight hast won ; 
Alone thou hast the wine-press trod ; 

In me thy strengthening grace be shown : 
may I conquer through thy blood. 

6 So, when on Zion thou shalt stand, 
And all heaven's host adore their King, 

Shall I be found at thy right hand. 
And, free from pain, thy glories sing. 

757 L. M. 

Patient thankfulness and trust. 

ETERNAL beam of Light divine, 
Fountain of unexhausted love ; 
In whom the Father's glories shine. 

Through earth beneath, and heaven above :- 

2 Jesus, the weary wand'rer's rest, 
Give me thy easy yoke to bear; 

With steadfast patience arm my breast, 
With spotless love and lowly fear. 

3 Thankful I take the cup from thee, 
Prepared and mingled by thy skill : 

Though bitter to the taste it be. 
Powerful the wounded soul to heal. 

4 Be thou, Rock of ages, nigh ! 

So shall each murm'ring thought be gone, 
And grief, and fear, and care shall fly, 
As clouds before the mid-day sun. 

6 Speak to my warring passions, — Peace ; 

Say to my trembUng heart, — Be still; 
Thy power my strength and fortress is. 

For all things serve thy sov'reign will. 

6 death ! where is thy sting ? Where now 

Thy boasted victory, grave? 
Wlio shall contend with God ? or who 

Can hurt whom God delights to save ? 



PATIENCE AND RESIGNATION. 453 

758 C. M. 

Submissive resignation. 

OLORD ! ray best desire fulfil, 
And help me to resign 
Life, health, and comfort to thy will. 
And make thy pleasure mine. 

2 Why should I shrink at thy command. 
Whose love forbids my fears? 

Or tremble at the gracious hand 
That wipes away my tears ? 

3 No ! rather let me freely yield 
What most I prize to thee. 

Who never hast a good withheld. 
Or wilt ^vithhold from me. 

4 Thy favour, all my journey through. 
Shall be my rich supply ; 

What else I want, or think I do. 
Let wisdom still deny. 

759 c. M. 

I^ot iny will, hut thine he done, 

ALL- WISE, almighty, and all-good. 
In thee I firmly trust ; 
Thy ways, unknown or understood, 
Are merciful and just. 

2 May I remember that to thee 
Whatever I have I owe ; 

And back in gratitude from me. 
May all thy bounties flow. 

3 Thy gifts are only then enjoy'd. 
When used as talents lent ; 

Those talents only well employed. 
When in thy service spent. 

4 And though thy wisdom takes away. 
Shall I an-aign thy will? 

No ! let me bless thy Name, and say, — 
The Lord is gracious still. 







454 DUTIES AND TRIALS. 

760 . L. M. 

Comfort in the promises, 
GOD ! to thee we raise our eyes ; 
Calm resignation we implore ; 

let no murm'ring thought arise, 
But humbly let us still adore. 

2 With meek submission may we bear 
Each needful cross thou shalt ordain; 

Nor think our trials too severe, 
Nor dare thy justice to arraign. 

3 For though mysterious now thy ways 
To erring mortals may appear. 

Hereafter we thy Name shall praise. 
For all our keenest sufferings here. 

4 Thy needful help, God, afford. 
Nor let us sink in deep despair; 

Aid us to trust thy sacred word. 

And find our sweetest comfort there. 

761 .... c. M. 

Patient in tribulation. 

¥ITH trouble laden — grief oppressed, 
Wings had I hke a dove, 

1 'd fly away, and be at rest. 
Within a world above ! — 

2 A world where angels, pure as fair, 
Swell Jesus' glorious train ; 

Nor sin may make intrusion there, 
Nor death an entrance gain; — 

3 Where God's own hand shall wipe away 
The tears from every face ; 

And Jesus to his saints display 
His mysteries of grace. 

4 Yet, Lord, each murm'ring thought control 
Each anxious wish repress : 

To thee I would resign my soul. 
And wait till thou shalt bless. 



PATIENCE AND RESiaNATiON. 455 

7G2 L.M. 

Safety and security in the arms of Jesus. 

GOD of my life, whose gracious power 
Through varied deaths my soul hath led. 
Or tum'd aside the fatal hour, 
Or lifted up my sinking head ; — 

2 In all ray ways thy hand I own, — ■ 
Thy ruhng providence I see ; 

Assist me still my course to run, 
And still direct my paths to thee. 

3 Whither, whither should I fly, 
But to my lo\'ing Saviour's breast ! 

Secure within thine arms to he, 

And safe beneath thy Avings to rest. 

4 I have no skill the snare to shun. 
But thou, Christ, my wisdom art • 

I ever into ruin run, 

But thou art greater than my heart. 

5 Foolish, and impotent, and bhnd. 
Lead me a way I have not known ; 

Bring me where I my heaven may find, — 
The heaven of lovinor thee alone. 

763 c. M. 

Sanctified affliction, 

GLORY to thee, thou righteous God, 
Righteous, yet kind to me ; 
For under thy paternal rod. 
Paternal love I see. 

2 Though humbled in the lowest deep, 
Thy gracious hand I bless ; 

And, thinking of thy love, I weep, 
For my unfaithfulness. 

3 Thou dost in tenderness chastise. 
And graciously reprove : 

My Father! — all within me cries, — 
Thy ways are ti*uth and love. 



456 DUTIES AND TRIALS. 

764 s. M. 

The souVs only refuge, 

THOU refuge of my soul, 
On thee, when sorrows rise. 
On thee, when waves of trouble roll, 
My fainting hope relies. 

2 To thee I tell my grief. 
For thou alone canst heal ; 

Thy word can bring a sweet relief 
For every pain I feel. 

3 But, 0, when doubts prevail, 
I fear to call thee mine ; 

The springs of comfort seem to fail. 
And all my hopes decline. 

4 Yet, Lord, where shall I flee? 
Thou art my only trust ; 

And still my soul would cleave to thee.. 
Though prostrate in the dust. 

765 12th P. M. 76, 76, '78, ^6. 

Smarting under the rod. 

FATHER, if thou must reprove 
For all that I have done, 
Not in anger, but in love. 

Chastise thine humbled son. 
Use the rod, and not the sword; 

Correct with kind severity; 
Bring me not to nothing. Lord, 

But bring me home to thee. 
2 True and faithful as thou art 

To all thy church and me. 
Give a new, believing heart. 

That knows, and cleaves to, thee ; 
For when we our hearts resign, 

Jesus, to be fiU'd with thee, 
Thou art ours, and we are thine, 

Through all eternity ! 



PATIENCE AND RESIGNATION. 457 

766 c. M. 

Chastisement received with humility. 

IT is the Lord, who doth not grieve. 
Or needlessly reprove; 
Saviour, we thankfully receive 

The tokens of thy love. 
2 These tokens may we ever prize. 

And answer their intent, 
By list'ning to thy word, that cries, — 
Be zealous, and repent. 

767 5th P. M. 4 lines 1^. 

Weak and helpless. 

SON of God, thy blessing grant; 
Still supply my every want; 
^Cree of life, thine influence shed : 
From thy fulness I am fed. 

2 Tend'rest branch, alas ! am I, — 
Wither without thee and die ; 
Weak as helpless infancy : 

confirm my soul in thee ! 

3 Unsustain'd by thee, I fall ; 
Send the help for which I call : 
Weaker than a bruised reed. 
Help I every moment need. 

4 All my hopes on thee depend ; 
Love me, save me to the end ; 
Give me persevering grace; 
Take the everlasting pi*aise. 

768 4th P. M. 886,886. 

God a very present help in trouble, 

OGOD, thy faithfulness I plead : 
My present help in time of need, 
My great deliv'rer thou ! 
Haste to mine aid, thine ear incline, 
And rescue this poor soul of mine : 
1 claim tlie promise now. 



458 DUTIES AND TRIALS. 

2 Where is the way? ah, show me where. 
That I thy mercy may declare, — 

The poFer that sets me free : 
How can I my destruction shun ? 
How can I from my nature run? 

Answer, Lord, for me. 

3 One only way the erring mind 
Of man, short-sighted man, can find. 

From inbred sin to fly : 
Stronger than love, I fondly thought 
Death, only death, can cut the knot. 

Which love cannot untie. 

4 But thou, Lord, art full of grace ; 
Thy love can find a thousand ways 

To foolish man unknown: 
My soul upon thy love 1 cast ; 

1 rest me, till the storm be past, 

Upon thy love alone. 

5 Thy faithful, wise, almighty love. 
Shall every stumbling-block remove, 

And make an open way : 
Thy love shall burst the shades of death, 
And bear me from the gulf beneath, 

To everlasting day. 

769 c. M. 

The Lord is my rock. 

THOU Rock of my salvation, haste ; 
Extend thine ample shade; 
And let it over me be cast. 
To screen my naked head. 

2 Defend me in this trying hour; 
My sure protection be ; 

My shelter from the tempest's power. 
Till I am fix'd on thee. 



PATIENCE AND RESIGNATION. 45J> 

3 set upon thyself my feet, 
And make me sm'ely stand; 

From fierce temptation's rage and heat 
Protect me with thy hand. 

4 Now let me in the cleft be placed ; 
Nor my defence remove ; 

Within tliine arms of love embraced,— 
Thine arms of endless love. 

770 C. M. 

The shadow of a great rock in a weary land 

NOW to the haven of thy breast, 
Son of man, I fly ; 
Be thou my refuge and my rest. 
For ! the storm is high. 

2 Protect me from the furious blast; 
My shield and shelter be: 

Hide me, my Saviour, till o'erpast 
The storm of sin I see. 

3 As welcome as the water- spring 
Is to a barren place, 

Jesus, descend on me, and bring 
Thy sweet, refreshing grace. 

4 As o'er a parch'd and weary land, 
A rock extends its shade, 

So hide me. Saviour, A\dth thy hand, 
And screen my naked head. 

5 In all the times of my distress 
Thou hast my succour been; 

And in my utter helplessness. 
Restraining me from sin; 

6 How swift to save me didst thou move 
In every trpng hour; 

still protect me with thy love, 
And shield me with thy power. 



460 DUTIES AND TRIALS. 

771 12th P. M. '76, 76, 78, 76. 
A shelter from the storm, 

SAVIOUR, now in me perform 
The work thou hast begun; 
Be my shelter from the storm. 

My shadow from the sun : 
Weary, parch'd Avith thirst, and faint. 

Till thou the' abiding Spirit breathe : 
Every moment, Lord, I want 

The merit of thy death. 
2 Never shall I want it less 

When thou the gift hast given, 
Fiird me with thy righteousness. 

And seaFd the heir of heaven ; 

1 will trust in thee, my God, 
Till I thy perfect glory see ; 

Till the sprinkhng of thy blood 
Shall speak me up to thee. 

772 L. M. 

The Lord is my refuge. 

VHY is my heart with grief oppress'd ? 
Can all the pains I feel or fear. 
Make thee, my soul, forget thy rest — 
Forget that God, thy God, is near ? 

2 Hast thou not often calFd the Lord 
Thy refuge, thy almighty friend ? 

And canst thou fear to trust that word 
On which thy hopes of heaven depend ? 

3 Lord, form my temper to thy will; 
If thou my faith and patience prove. 

May every painful stroke fulfil 
Thy purposes of faithful love. 

4 O may this weak, this fainting mina, 
A Father's hand, adoring, see ; 

Confess thee just, and wise, and kind, 
And trust thy word, and cleave to thee. 



PATIENCE AND RESIGNATION. 461 

773 L- M 

Trial and faith of Ahaham,. 

ABRAHAM, when severely tried, 
His faith by liis obedience show'd; 
He Avith the harsh command comphed. 
And gave his Isaac back to God. 

2 His son the father oflfer'd up, — 
Son of his age, his only son ; 

Object of all his joy and hope. 
And less beloved than God alone. 

3 for a faith like his, that we 
The bright example may pursue; 

May gladly give up all to thee. 
To whom our more than all is due. 

4 Is there a thing than life more dear? 
A thing from which we cannot part? 

We can ; we now rejoice to tear 
The idol from our bleeding heart. 

5 Jesus, accept our sacrifice ; 

All things for thee we count but loss ; 
Lo ! at thy word our idol dies, — 
Dies on the altar of thy cross. 

6 For what to thee, Lord, we give, 
A hundred-fold we here obtain; 

And soon with thee shall all receive. 
And loss shall be eternal gain. 

774 L. M. 

Hope in God, 

GOD of my strength, in thee alone 
A refuge from distress I see ; 
why hast thou thine aid withdrawn? 
Why hast thou. Lord, forsaken me ? 
2 let thy light my footsteps guide; 

Thy love and truth my spirit fill ; 
That in thy house I may reside, 
And worship at thy holy hill. 



462 DUTIES AND TRIAI^. 

3 Then will I at thine altar bend ; 
My harp its softest notes shall raise, 

And from my lips to heaven ascend 
The song of thankfulness and praise. 

4 Why then, my soul, art thou cast down ? 
Why ai*t thou anxious and distress'd? 

Hope thou in God, his mercy own, 
For I shall yet enjoy his rest. 

775 C. M. 

Tmsting in the mercy of God. 

VHY, my soul, why depress'd. 
And whence thine anxious fears ? 
Let former mercies ^x thy trust. 
And check thy rising tears. 

2 Affliction is a stormy deep. 
Where wave succeeds to wave; 

Though o'er my head the billows sweep, 
I know the Lord can save. 

3 His grace and mercy trust, my soul, 
Nor murmur at his rod : 

In vain the waves of trouble roll. 
While he is still thy God. 

776 S. M 

All' sufficiency of His grace, 

JESUS, my Lord, my God, 
Thy promise I embrace; 
And hail, beneath the Father's rod. 
Thy all-sufficient grace. 

2 My oft-repeated prayer 
The kindest answer gains, 

When, by thy gracious aid, I bear 
Life's keen and varied pains. 

3 Should dread of want oppress, 
And men or fiends assail, — 

Infirmities my frame oppress, 
And earthly comforts fail, — 



J^ATIKNCE AND RESIGNATIOjN. 4G3 

4 Still may I trust in thee, 
And calm eacli rising fear; 

For none of these can injui'e me 
While thou, O Christ, art near. 

5 My faith as gold refine; 
Each grace and virtue prove ; 

That in my spotless life may shine 
The light of perfect love. 

6 Thus shall thy mighty power 
Upon thy servant rest ; 

Who glories in the trying hour, 
By thee upheld and blest. 

777 C. M. 

The Lord my portion. 

ETERNAL Source of joys di\dne, 
To thee my soul aspires; 
! could I say, — The Lord is mine ! 
'Tis all my soul desires. 

2 My hope, my tmst, my life, my Lord, 
Assure me of thy love ; 

! speak the kind, transporting word, 
And bid my fears remove. 

3 Then shall my thankful powers rejoice, 
And triumph in my God, 

Till heavenly rapture tune my voice 
To spread thy praise abroad. 

778 C. M. 

In His presence there is fulness of joy, 

THY gracious presence, my God, 
Ail that I wish contains ; 
With this, beneath affliction's load. 

My heart no more complains. 
2 This can my every care control, — 

Gild each dark scene with light: 
This is the sunshine of the soul ; 
Without it all is night. 



464 DUTIES AND TRIALS. 

3 O happy scenes above the sky, 
Where thy full beams unpart 

Unclouded beauty to the eye, 
And rapture to the heart. 

4 Her portion in those realms of bliss, 

My spirit longs to know ; 

My wishes terminate in this, 

Nor can they rest below. 

6 Lord, shall the breathings of my heart 

Aspire in vain to thee ? 
Confirm my hope, that where thou art 

I shall forever be. 

6 Then shall my cheerful spirit sing 

The darksome hours away, 
And rise, on faith's expanded ^ving. 

To everlasting day. 

779 S. M. 

Whoso trusteth in the Lord shall be safe, 

COMMIT thou all thy griefs 
And ways into His hands, — 
To his sure trust and tender care 

Who earth and heaven commands : 
Who points the clouds their course. 

Whom winds and seas obey : 
He shall direct thy wandering feet, — 
He shall prepare thy way. 

2 Thou on the Lord rely. 

So, safe, shalt thou go on ; 
Fix on his work thy steadfast eye, 

So shall thy work be done. 
No profit canst thou gain 

By self-consuming care ; 
To him commend thy cause, — his ear 

Attends the softest prayer. 



PATIENCE AND RESIGNATION. 465 

780 S. M. 
He rtdeth all things well, 

GIVE to the winds thy fears; 
Hope, and be undismayed ; 
God hears thy sighs and counts thy tears; 

God shall lift up thy head ; 
Through waves,' and clouds, and storms, 

He gently clears thy way ; 
Wait thou his time, so shall this night 
Soon end in joyous day. 

2 Still heavy is thy heart ? 
Still sink thy spirits down ? 

Cast off the weight, — let fear depart, 

And every care be gone. 
What though thou rulest not ; 

Yet heaven, and earth, and hell. 
Proclaim, — God sitteth on the throne. 

And ruleth all things well. 

3 Leave to his sov'reign sway 
To choose and to command : 

So shalt thou, wond'ring, own his way, 
How wise, how strong his hand ! 

Far, far above thy thought 
His counsel shall appear. 

When fully he the work hath wi'ought 
That caused thy needless fear. 

781 L.M. 

He carethfor you. 

PEACE, troubled soul, thou need'st not fear ; 
Thy great Pro^dder still is near ; 
Who fed thee last, will feed thee still : 
Be calm, and sink into his ^vill. 

2 The Lord, who built the earth and sky, 
In mercy stoops to hear thy cry ; 
His promise all may freely claim : 
Ask and receive in Jesus' imme. 

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466 DUTIES AKD TRIALS. 

3 Without reserve give Christ your heart , 
Let him his righteousness impart ; 

Then all things else he '11 freely give ; 
With him you all things shall receive. 

4 Thus shall the soul be truly blest, 
That seeks in God his only rest ; 
May I that happy person be, 

In time and in eternity. 

782 . . CM. 

Deliverafice is at hand 

MY span of life will soon be done. 
The passing moments say ; 
As lengthening shadows o'er the mead, 
Proclaim the close of day. 

2 that my heart might dwell aloof 
From all created thmgs; 

And learn that wisdom from above, 
Whence tnie contentment springs. 

3 Courage, my soul ; thy bitter cross. 
In every trial here. 

Shall bear thee to thy heaven above. 
But shall not enter there. 

4 The sighing ones, that humbly seek 
In sorrowing paths below. 

Shall in eternity rejoice, 

Where endless comforts flow. 

5 Soon will the toilsome strife be o'er. 
Of sublunary care, 

And life's dull vanities no more 
This anxious breast ensnare. 

6 Courage, my soul ; on God rely ; 
Deliv'rance soon will come ; 

A thousand ways has Providence 
To bring believers home. 



PATIENCE AND RESIGNATION. 467 

783 S. M. 

Walking by faith. 

IF, on a quiet sea, 
Tow'rd heaven we calmly sail, 
With grateful hearts, God, to thee. 
We '11 own the fav'ring gale. 

2 But should the surges rise, 
And rest delay to come. 

Blest be the soitow, kind the storm. 
Which drives us nearer home. 

3 Soon shall our doubts and fears 
All yield to thy control : 

Thy tender mercies shall illume 
The midnight of the soul. 

4 Teach us, in every state, 
To make thy will our own ; 

And when the joys of sense depart. 
To Hve by faith alone. 

784 L. M. 

In hope^ believing against hope. 

AWAY, my unbelieving fear ! 
Fear shall in me no more have place 
My Saviour doth not yet appear, — 

He hides the brightness of his face : 
But shall I therefore let him go. 

And basely to the tempter yield ? 
No, in the strength of Jesus, no, 

I never will give up my shield. 
2 Although the vine its fniit deny, 

Although the ohve yield no oil. 
The withering fig-trees droop and die. 

The fields elude the tiller's toil, — 
The empty stall no herd afford. 

And perish all the bleating race. 
Yet will I triumph m the Lord, — 

The God of my salvation praise. 



468 DUTIES akd trials. 

3 In hope, believing against hope, 

Jesus, my Lord, my God, I claim ; 
Jesus, my strength, shall lift me up , 

Salvation is in Jesus' name. 
To me he soon shaU bring it nigh ; 

My soul shall then outstrip the wind ; 
On wings of love mount up on high, 

And leave the world and sin behind. 

785 c. M. 

Casting all your care upon Him. 

STILL on the Lord thy burden roll. 
Nor let a care remain ; 
His mighty arm shall bear thy soul. 
And all thy griefs sustain. 

2 Ne'er will the Lord his aid deny 
To those who trust his love ; 

And they who on his grace rely. 
Shall sing his praise above. 

786 c.M. 

Glorying in tribulations, 

THEE, Jesus, full of truth and grace, 
Thee, Saviour, we adore ; 
Thee in affliction's furnace praise. 
And magnify thy power. 

2 Thy power, in human weakness shown, 
Shall make us all entire ; 

We now thy guardian presence own. 
And walk, unbumt, in fire. 

3 Thee, Son of man, by faith we see. 
And glory in our Guide ; 

Surrounded and upheld by thee. 
The fiery test abide. 

4 The fire our graces shall refine. 
Till, moulded from above. 

We bear the character divine, — 
The stamp of perfect love. 



PATIENCE AND RE&IGNATION. 469 

787 c. M. 

Fearless in the furnace of affliction. 

GOi) of thine Israel's faithful three. 
Who braved the tyrant's ire, 
Who nobly scom'd to bow the knee, 

And walk'd, unhurt, in fire :- - 
breathe their faith into my breast. 

In every trying hour ; 
And stand, Son of man, confessed 

In all thy sa\dng power ! 
2 While thou, Almighty Lord, art nigh, 

My soul disdains to fear ; 
Both sin and Satan I defy. 

Still impotently near ; 
The earth and hell their wars may wage,— 

I mark their vain design : 
And calmly smile to see them rage 

Against a child of thine. 

788 S.M. 

The unchangeable truth and love of Jesus, 

SUBMISSIVELY, my God, 
I all to thee resign, 
And bow before thy chast'ning rod ; 
Nor will I, Lord, repine. 

2 Why should my heart complain. 
When wisdom, truth, and love 

Direct the stroke, inflict the pain. 
And point to joys above? 

3 How short my sufferings here; 
How needful every cross: 

Away with doubt, distrust, and feai, 
Nor call my gain my loss. 

4 Then give, or take away, 
I'll bless thy sacred Name : 

Jesus to-day, and yesterday, 
And ever, is the same. 



470 DUTIES AND TRIALS. 

789 1st P.M. 6 lines Ss. 
Steadfast reliance and confident anticipation. 

THOUGH waves and storms go o'er my head, 
Though strength, and health, and friends be 
gone ; 
Though joys be wither 'd all, and dead. 

Though every comfort be withdrawn ; 
On this my steadfast soul reUes, — 
Father, thy mercy never dies. 

2 Fix'd on this ground will I remain. 
Though my heart fail, and flesh decay ; 

This anchor shall my soul sustain. 
When earth's foundations melt away ; 

Mercy's full power I then shall prove. 

Loved with an everlasting Love. 

790 IstP. M. Q lines ^^. 
I will fear no evil^for thou art with me, 

PEACE, doubting heart, my God's I am ; 
Who form'd me man forbids my fear ; 
The Lord hath call'd me by my name ; 

The Lord protects, forever near : 
His blood for me did once atone. 
And still he loves and guards his o^vn. 

2 When, passing through the watery deep, 
I ask in faith his promised aid. 

The waves an awful distance keep, 

And shrink from my devoted head : 
Fearless, their violence I dare ; 
They cannot harm, for God is there ! 

3 To Him mine eye of faith I turn. 
And through the fire pursue my way ; 

The fire forgets its power to bum, — 

The lambent flames around me play : 
I own his power, accept the sign, 
And shout to prove the Saviour mine. 



PA.TIENCE AND RESIGNATION. 47J 

791 S. M. 

The sure foundation. 

IN every trying hour 
My soul to Jesus flies ; 

1 trust in his almighty power. 

When swelling billows rise. 

2 His comforts bear me up ; 
I trust a faithful God ; 

The sure foundation of my hope 
Is in my Saviour's blood. 

3 Loud hallelujahs sing, 

To our Redeemer's Name ; 
In joy or sorrow — life or death — 
His love is still the same. 

792 1st P.M. 6/eV5 8s. 

The servant shall be <w his Lord, 

THY every sufi*'ring servant, Lord, 
Shall as his perfect Master be ; 
To all thy inward life restored. 

And outwardly conform'd to thee : 
Out of thy grave the saints shall rise. 
And grasp, through death, the glorious prize. 
2 This is the straight, the royal way 

That leads us to the courts above : 
Here let us ever, ever stay. 

Till, on the wings of perfect love. 
We take our last, triumphant flight. 
From Calvary's to Zion's height. 

793 1st P. M. 6 Z^we^ 8s, 

Triumphant confidence in the Saviour. 

STILL nigh me, my Saviour, stand. 
And guard in fierce temptation's hour ; 
Hide in the hollow of thy hand ; 

Show forth in me thy saving power : 
Still be thy arms my sure defence. 
Nor earth nor hell shall pluck me thence 



472 DUTIES AND TRIALS. 

2 Since thou hast bid me come to thee, 
(Good as thou art, and strong to save,) 

I'll walk o'er life's tempestuous sea, 
Upborne by the unyielding wave ; 
Dauntless, though rocks of pride be near. 
And yawning whirlpools of despair. 

3 When darkness intercepts the skies, 
And sorrow's waves around me roll. 

And high the storms of troubles rise. 

And half o'erwhelm my sinking soul ; 
My soul a sudden calm shall feel, 
And hear a whisper, — ^Peace ; be still ! 

4 Though in affliction's furnace tried, 
Unhiirt, on snares and death I'll tread ; 

Though sin assail, and hell, thrown wide. 

Pour all its flames upon my head ; 
Like Moses' bush I'll mount the higher. 
And flourish, unconsumed, in fire. 

794 L M. 

It is I ; be not afraid. 

VHEN power divine in mortal form 
Hush'd with a word the raging storm, 
In soothing, accents Jesus said, — 
Lo, it is I ; be not afraid. 

2 So when in silence natiu'e sleeps, 
And lonely watch the mourner keeps. 
One thought shall every pang remove — 
Trust, feeble man, thy Maker's love. 

3 God calms the tumult and the storm ; 
He rules the seraph and the worm : 
No creature is by him forgot 

Of those who know, or know him not. 
. 4 And when the last dread hour shall come, 
And shudd'ring nature wait her doom, 
This voice shall wake the pious dead, — 
Lo, it is I ; be not afraid. 



PA.TIENCE AND RESIGNATION. 473 

795 L. M. 

His lovhig kindness is better than life. 

OGOD, thou art my God alone ; 
Early to thee my soul shall cry; 
A pilgrim in a land unknown, — 

A thirsty land, whose springs are dry. 

2 Thee, in the watches of the night, 
When I remember on my bed, 

Thy presence makes the darkness light ; 
Thy guardian wings are round my head. 

3 Better than life itself, thy love ; 
Dearer than all beside to me ; 

For whom have I in heaven above. 

Or what on earth, compared with thee ? 

4 Praise with my heart, my mind, my voice. 
For all thy mercy I will give ; 

My soul shall still in God rejoice, — 
My tongue shall bless thee while I live. 

796 12th P. M. 16,16,18,16. 
Jesus^ the same yesterday, to-day, and forever. 

CAST on the fidehty 
Of my redeeming Lord, 

1 shall his salvation see, 

Accordinor to his word : 
Credence to his word I give ; 

My Sa^dour in distresses past 
Will not now his servant leave, 

But bring me through at last. 

2 Better than my boding fears 
To me thou oft hast proved ; 

Oft observed my silent tears, 
And challenged thy beloved : 

Mercy to my rescue flew, 

And death ungrasp'd-his fainting piey; 

""^ain before thy face withdrew, 
And son'ow fled away. 



474 DUTIES AND TRIALS. 

3 Now as yesterday the same. 
In all my troubles nigh, 

Jesus, on thy word and name 

I steadfastly rely : 
Sure as now the grief I feel. 

The promised joy I soon shall have ; 
Saved again, to sinners tell 

Thy power and will to save. 

4 To thy blessed will resigned, 
And stay'd on that alone, 

I thy perfect strength shall find, — 
Thy faithful mercies own ; 

Compass'd round with songs of praise, 
My all to my Redeemer give ; 

Spread thy miracles of grace. 
And to thy glory live. 



STEADFASTNESS AND GROWTH IN GRACE. 

797 C. M. 

Vanity of earthly enjoyments. 

HOW vain are all things here below; 
How false, and yet how fair ! 
Each pleasure hath its poison too. 
And every sweet a snare. 

2 The brightest things below the sky 
Give but a flatt'ring light ; 

We should suspect some danger nigh. 
Where we possess delight. 

3 Our dearest joys, and nearest friends. 
The partners of our blood. 

How they divide our wav'ring minds. 
And leave but half for God, 



GROWTH IN GRACK 475 

4 The fondness of a creature*s love, 
How strong it strikes the sense; 

Thither the warm aflfections move. 
Nor can we call them thence. 

5 My Saviom*, let thy beauties be 
My soul's eternal food ; 

And grace command my heart away 
From all created good. 

798 9th P. M. 87,87,87,87. 

Worldly pleastires renounced. 

VAIN are all terrestrial pleasures ; 
Mix'd with dross the purest gold ; 
Seek we then for heavenly treasures, — 

Treasures never waxing old. 
Let our best affections centre 

On the things around the throne : 
There no thief can ever enter; 

Moth and rust are there unknown. 

2 Earthly joys no longer please us ; 
Here would we renounce them all; 

Seek our only rest in Jesus, — 
Him our Lord and Master call. 

Faith, our languid spirits cheering. 
Points to brighter worlds above ; 

Bids us look for his appearing ; 
Bids us triumph in his love. 

3 May om' light be always burning, 
And our loins be girded round. 

Waiting for our Lord's returning, — 
Lono'ine: for the welcome soimd. 

Thus the Chiistian life adommg. 
Never need we be afraid, 

Should he come at night or morning. 
Early dawn, or evening shade. 



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476 DUTIES AND TRIALS. 

799 s. M. 

Self -consecration. 

LORD, in the strength of grace, 
With a glad heart and free. 
Myself, my residue of days, 

I consecrate to thee. 
2 Thy ransom'd ser\'ant, I 

Restore to thee thine own ; 
And from this moment live or die, 
To serve my God alone. 

800 12th P. M. 16,16,18,16. 

Determined to know nothing but Jesus and him crucijied 

^AIN, delusive world, adieu. 
With all of creature good : 
Only Jesus I pursue. 

Who bought me with his blood 5 
All thy pleasures I forego ; 

I trample on thy wealth and pride ; 
Only Jesus will I know, 

And Jesus crucified. 

2 Other knowledge I disdain ; 
'Tis all but vanity : 

Christ, the Lamb of God, was slain, — 

He tasted death for me. 
Me to save from endless wo 

The sin-atoning Victim died : 
Only Jesus, will I know, 

And Jesus cmcified. 

3 Here will I set up my rest ; 
My fluctuating heart 

From the haven of his breast 

Shall never more depart : 
Whither should a sinner go ? 

His wounds for me stand open wide ; 
Only Jesus will I know, 

And Jesus crucified. 



GROWTH m GRACE. 477 

4 Him to know is life and peace. 
And pleasure without end ; 

This is all my happiness, 

On Jesus to depend ; 
Daily in his grace to grow, 

Ajid ever in liis faith abide ; 
Only Jesus will I know, 

And Jesus crucified. 

5 that I could all imdte, 
This saving truth to prove ; 

Show the length, the breadth, the height, 

And depth of Jesus' love ! 
Fain I would to sinners show 

The blood by faith alone applied; 
Only Jesus will I know, 

And Jesus crucified. 

801 c. M. 

Steadfast faith. 

MY God, I know, I feel thee mine, 
And will not quit my claim. 
Till all I have is lost in thine. 
And all renew'd I am. 

2 I hold thee with a trembling hand. 

And will not let thee go. 
Till steadfastly by faith I stand. 

And all thy goodness know. 

802 ^ 10th P. M. 8 lines 8s. 

Following the Lamb, 

WHAT now is my object and aim ? 
What now is my hope and desire ? 
To follow the heavenly Lamb, 
And after his image aspire : 
My hope is all centred in thee ; 

I trust to recover thy love ; 

On earth thy salvation to see, 

And then to enjoy it above. 



478 DUTIES AND TI11A.LS. 

803 1st P. M. 6 lines 8s. 
I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest, 

MASTER, I own thy lawful claim; 
Thine, wholly thine, I long to be ; 
Thou seest, at last, I willing am, 

Where'er thou go'st, to follow thee ; 
Myself in all things to deny ; 
Thine, wholly thine, to live and die. 
2 Pleasure, and wealth, and praise no more 

Shall lead my captive soul astray ; 
My fond pursuits I all give o'er ; 

Thee, only thee, resolved to' obey : 
My own in all things to resign, 
Ajid know no other will but thine. 

804 L. M. 

The vow sealed at the cross. 

LORD, I am. thine, entirely thine. 
Purchased and saved by blood divine; 
With full consent thine I would be. 
And own thy sov'reign right in me. 

2 Grant one poor sinner more a place 
Among the children of thy grace ; 

A wretched sinner, lost to God, 
But ransom'd by Immanuel's blood. 

3 Thine would I live — thine would I die; 
Be thine through all eternity; 

The vow is past beyond repeal, 
And now I set the solemn seal. 

4 Here, at that cross where flows the blood 
That bought my guilty soul for God, — 
Thee, my new Master, now I call, 

And consecrate to thee my all. 

5 Do thou assist a feeble worm 
The great engagement to perform ; 
Thy grace can full assistance lend. 
And on that grace I dare depend. 



GROWTH IN GRACE. 479 

805 C. M. 

The world has lost its charms, 

LET worldly minds tlie world pursue; 
It has no charms for me: 
Once I admu*ed its trifles too. 
But grace hath set me free. 

2 Its pleasures can no longer please. 
Nor happiness afford : 

Far from my heart be jjys like these. 
Now I have seen the Lord. 

3 As by the light of opening day 
The stars are all conceal'd, 

So earthly pleasures fade away, 
When Jesus is reveal'd. 

4 Creatures no more divide my choice; 
I bid them all depart: 

His name, his love, his gracious voice. 
Have fix'd my roving heart. 

806 . . L.M. 

Heavenly bliss in prospect 

ARISE, my soul, on wings sublime. 
Above the vanities of time ; 
Let faith now pierce the veil, and see 
The glories of eternity. 

2 Bom by a new, celestial birth, 
Why should I grovel here on earth? 
Why grasp at vain and fleeting toys, 
So near to heaven's eternal joys ? 

3 Shall aught beguile me on the road, — 
The narrow road that leads to God? 

Or can I love this earth so well. 
As not to long with God to dwell ? 

4 To dwell with God, — to taste his love. 
Is the full heaven enjoy 'd above ; 

The gloiious expectation now 
Is heavenly bliss begun below. 



480 DUTIES AND TRIALS. 

807 ' CM. 

His service is perfect freedom. 

BEHOLD ! I come with joy to do 
The Master's blessed will ; 
My Lord in outward works pursue. 

And sen^e his pleasure still. 
Thus faithful to my Lord's commands, 

I choose the better part, 
And serve with careful Martha's hands, 
But loving Mary's heart. 

2 Though careful, without care I am. 
Nor feel my happy toil, — 

Preserved in peace by Jesus' Name, 

Supported by his smile : 
Rejoicing thus my faith to show. 

His service my reward; 
While every work I do below, 

I do it to the Lord. 

3 0! that the world the art might know 
Of li\Tng thus to thee ; 

And find their heaven begun below, 

And here thy glory see ; 
Walking in all the works prepared 

To exercise their grace. 
They gain at last their full reward. 

And see thy glorious face. 

808 c. M. 

Self-dedication to the Lord, 

RETURN, my soul, unto thy rest ; 
From God no longer roam ; 
His hand hath bountifully blest; 
His goodness calls thee home. 

2 What shall I render unto thee, 

My Saviour in distress. 
For all thy benefits to me. 

So great and numberless? 



GROWTH m GRACE. 481 

3 This will I do for thy love's sake, 
And thus thy power proclaim ; 

The cup of thy salvation take, 
And call upon thy Name. 

4 Thou God of covenanted grace, 
Hear and record my vow. 

While in thy courts I seek thy face, 
And at thine altar bow : — 

5 Henceforth to thee myself I give ; 
With single heart and eye 

To walk before thee while I Uve, 
And bless thee when I die. 

809 L. M. 

Reverential joy arid filial fear, 

IF, Lord, I have acceptance found 
With thee, or favour in thy sight, 
Still with thy grace and tiTith surround 
And arm me with thy Spirit's might. 

2 may I hear thy warning voice. 
And timely fly from danger near ; 

With rev'rence unto thee rejoice, 
And love thee with a fihal fear: 

3 Still hold my soul in second life, 
And suffer not my feet to shde : 

Support me in the glorious strife. 
And comfort me on every side. 

4 give me faith, and faith's increase ; 
Finish the work begun in me ; 

Preserve my soul in perfect peace. 
And let me always rest on thee. 

810 s. M. 

Fear of offending God. 

LORD, if thou hast bestow'd 
On me this gracious fear, 
This horror of offending God, — 
keep it always here ; — 

.31 



482 DUTIES Am) TRIALS. 

2 And that I never more 
May from thy ways depart, 

Enter, with all thy mercy's power, 
And dwell within my heart. 

811 CM. 

The steward of the Lord. 

FATHER, into thy hands alone 
I have my all restored : 
My all, thy property I own: 
The steward of the Lord. 

2 Confiding wholly in thy love, 
Through Jesus strength 'ning me, 

1 wait thy faithfulness to prove, 

And give back all to thee. 

3 Determined all thy will to' obey, 
Thy blessings I restore ; 

Give, Lord, or take thy gifts away, 
I praise thee evermore. 

812 c. M. 

Kot ashamed of the Gospel. 

I'M not ashamed to own my Lord, 
Or to defend his cause ; 
Maintain the honour of his word, — 
The glory of his cross. 

2 Jesus, my God ! — I know his name ; 
His name is all my trust ; 

Nor will he put my soul to shame, 
Nor let my hope be lost. 

3 Firm as his throne his promise stands. 
And he can well secure 

What I 've committed to his hands. 
Till the decisive hour. 

4 Then will he own my worthless name 
Before his Father's face. 

And in the New Jerusalem 
Appoint my soul a place. 



GROWTH IN GRACE. 483 

813 L- M. 

Not ashamed of Jesus, 

JESUS, and shall it ever be, 
A mortal man ashamed of thee ! 
Ashamed of thee, whom angels praise, — 
Whose glories shine through endless days. 

2 Ashamed of Jesus ! — that dear Friend 
On whom my hopes of heaven depend ; 
No ! — when I blush, be this my shame, — 
That I no more revere his Name. 

3 Ashamed of Jesus ! — yes, I may, 
When I Ve no guilt to wash away ; 
No tear to wipe, no good to crave, 
No fears to quell, no soul to save. 

4 Till then — nor is my boasting vain — 
Till then, I boast a Saviour slain ; 
And 0, may this my glory be, — 
That Christ is not ashamed of me 

814 CM. 

Waiting upon the Lord. 

STILL, for thy lo\dng-kindness. Lord, 
I in thy temple wait: 

1 look to find thee in thy word. 
Or at thy table meet. 

2 Here, in thine own appointed ways, 
I wait to learn thy will : 

Silent I stand before thy face. 
And hear thee say, — Be still ! 

3 Be still ! and know that I am God ; — 
'Tis all I hve to know ; 

To feel the virtue of thy blood. 
And spread its praise below. 

4 I wait my vigour to renew, — 
Thine image to retrieve ; 

The veil of outward things pass through. 
And gasp in thee to live. 



484 DUTIES AND TRIAI3. 

815 S. M. 

The signature of God's love, 

LORD, in thy hand I lie, 
And wait thy will to prove • 
My Potter, stamp on me, th) clay, 

Thine only stamp of love : 
Be this my whole desire; 
I know that it is thine ; 
Then kindle in my soul a fire 
Which shall forever shine. 

2 plant in me thy mind ; 

fix in me thy home ; 
So shall I cry to all mankind, — 

Come to the waters, come. 
Jesus is full of grace ; 

To all his bowels move ; 
Behold in me, ye fallen race, 

That God is only love. 

816 L. M. 

Living to the glory of God. 

OTHOU ! who hast at thy command 
The hearts of all men in thy hand ; 
Our wayward, erring hearts incline 
To have no other will but thine. 

2 Our wishes, our desires, control ; 
Mould every purpose of the soul ; 
O'er all may we victorious prove 
That stands between us and thy love. 

3 Thrice blest will all our blessings be, 
When we can look through them to thet> ; 
When each glad heart its tribute pays 

Of love, and gratitude, and praise. 

4 And while we to thy glory live. 
May we to thee all glory give. 
Until the final summons come. 
That calls thy willi^ig servants home. 



GROWTH IN GRACE. 485 

817 L. M. 

Living to serve the cause of Christ. 

MY gracious Lord, I own thy right 
To every service I can pay, 
And call it my supreme delight 
To hear thy dictates, and obey. 

2 What is my bemg but for thee, — 
Its sure support, its noblest end ? 

Tis my delight thy face to see, 

And serve the cause of such a Friend 

3 I would not sigh for worldly joy. 
Or to increase my worldly good ; 

Nor future days nor powers employ 
To spread a sounding name abroad. 

4 'Tis to my Saviour I would live, — 
To him who for my ransom died ; 

Nor could all worldly honour give 
Such bliss as crowns me at his side. 

5 His work my hoary age shall bless. 
When youthful vigour is no more ; 

And my last hour of life confess 
His saving love, his glorious power. 

818 4th P. M. 886,886. 
Looking unto Jesics. 

ARE there not in the labourer's day 
Twelve hours, in which he safely may 

His calling's work pursue? 
Though sin and Satan still are near. 
Nor sin nor Satan can I fear. 

With Jesus in my view. 
2 Light of the world ! thy beams I bless ; 
On thee, bright Sun of righteousness, 

My faith hath fix'd its eye : 
Guided by thee, through all I go. 
Nor fear the iiiin spiead below. 

For thou art always nigh. 



48G DUTIES AND TRIALS. 

3 Ten thousand snares my paths beset. 
Yet will I, Lord, the work complete. 

Which thou to me hast given ; 
Regardless of the pains I feel, 
Close by the gates of death and hell, 

I urge my way to heaven. 

819 s.M. 

Strengthen the weak hands. 

THOU seest our weakness, Lord ; 
Our hearts are known to thee ; 
lift thou up the sinking hand, 

Confirm the feeble knee. 
2 Let us in life, in death, 

Thy steadfast truth declare ; 
And publish, with our latest breath. 
Thy love and guardian care. 

820 2dP. M. 6 lines Sfi. 

The image of the heavenly. 

LORD over all, sent to fulfil 
Thy gracious Father's sovereign will. 
To thy dread sceptre will I bow ; 
With duteous rev'rence at thy feet, ' 
Like humble Mary, lo ! I sit ; 

Speak, Lord, thy servant heareth now. 

2 The world, sin, death, oppose in vain ; 
Thou, by thy dying, death hast slain. 

My great Deliverer, and my God ! 
In vain does the old dragon rage ; 
In vain all hell its powers engage ; 

None can withstand thy conqu'ring blood. 

3 Renew thine image. Lord, in me ; 
Lowly and gentle may I be ; 

No charms but these to thee are dear ; 
No anger may'st thou ever find, 
No pride in my unruffled mind. 

But faith and heaven- born peace be there. 



GROWTH IN GRACE. 487 

4 A patient, a victorious mind, 
That life and all things casts behind, 

Springs forth obedient to thy call ; 
A heart that no desire can move, 
But still t' adore, believe, and love. 

Give me, my Lord, ny life, my all ! 

821 L. M. 

The all-sufficient Portion, 

OLOVE, thy sovereign aid impart. 
And guard the gift thyself hast given : 
My portion, thou, my treasure art. 
My life, and happiness, and heaven. 

2 Would aught on earth my wishes share? 
Though dear as Ufe the idol be. 

The idol from my breast I '11 tear, 
Resolved to seek my all in thee. 

3 Whate'er I fondly counted mine, 
To thee, my Lord, I here restore ; 

Gladly 1 all to thee resign; 

Give me thyself, I ask no more. 

822 1st P. M. 6 lines %%, 

Circumspection. 

VATCH'D by the world's malignant eye, 
Who load us with reproach and shame. 
As servants of the Lord most high. 
As zealous for his glorious Name, 
We ought in all his paths to move 
With holy fear and humble love. 

2 That wisdom. Lord, on us bestow, 

From every e\il to depart ; 
To stop the mouth of every foe. 

While, upright both in life and heart. 
The proofs of godly fear we give, 
And show them how the Christians live. 



488 DUTIES AND TRIALS. 

823 1st p. M. 6 lines Ss. 

Pressing toward the mark. 

I THANK thee, uncreated Sun, 
That thy bright beams on me have shined ; 
I thank thee, who hast overthrown 

My foes, and heal'd my wounded mind ; 

1 thank thee, whose enUvening voice 
Bids my freed heart in thee rejoice. 

2 Uphold me in the doubtful race, 
Nor suffer me again to stray ; 

Strengthen my feet, with steady pace 
Still to press forward in thy way ; 
My soul and flesh, Lord of might. 
Fill, satiate, with thy heavenly light. 

3 Give to mine eyes refreshing tears ; 
Give to my heart chaste, hallow'd fires > 

Give to my soul, with filial fears. 

The love that all heaven's host inspires, 
Th?.t all my powers, with all their might, 
In thy sole glory may unite. 

4 Thee will I love, my joy, my crown ; 
Thee will I love, my Lord, my God ; 

Thee will I love, beneath thy frown 
Or smile, thy sceptre or thy rod. 
What though my flesh and heart decay ; 
Thee shall I love in endless day. 

824 5th P. M. 4 lines 7a 
Christ liveth in me. 

LOVING Jesus, gentle Lamb, 
In thy gracious hands I am ; 
Make me, Saviour, what thou art ; 
Live thyself within my heart. 
2 I shall then show forth thy praise ; 
Serve thee all my happy days ; 
Then the world shall always see 
Cliiist the holy child in me. 



GROWTH IN aRACE. 489 

825 L- M. 

Following the Saviour. 

OTHOU, to whose all-searching sight 
The darkness shineth as the light, 
Search, prove my heart, it pants for thee ; 
burst these bonds, and set it free. 

2 Wash out its stains, refine its dross , 
Nail my affections to the cross ; 
Hallow each thought ; let all within 
Be clean, as thou, my Lord, art clean. 

3 If in this darksome wild I stray. 
Be thou my light, be thou my way : 
No foes, no violence I fear, 

No fraud, while thou, my God, art near. 

4 When rising floods my soul o'erflow, — 
When sinks my heart in waves of wo, — 
Jesus, thy timely aid impart. 

And raise my head, and cheer my heart. 

5 Saviour, where'er thy steps I see, 
Dauntless, mitired, I follow thee ; 

let thy hand support me still. 
And lead me to thy holy hill. 

6 If rough and thorny be the way. 
My strength proportion to my day ; 
Till toil, and grief, and pain shall ceasi, 
Where all is calm, and joy, and peace. 

826 L.M. 

Evermore give us this bread. 

FATHER, supply my every need ; 
Sustain the life thyself hast given ; 
grant the never-failiiag bread, — 

The manna that comes down from heaven. 
2 The gracious fruits of righteousness, 

Thy blessings' unexhausted store, 
In me abundantly increase. 
Nor ever let me hunorer more. 



490 DUTIES AND TRIALS. 

3 Let me no more, in deep complaint, 
My leanness, my leanness ! cry : 

Alone consumed with pining want, 
Of all my Father's children I. 

4 The painful thirst, the fond desire, 
Thy joyous presence shall remove ; 

But my full soul shall still require 
A whole eternity of love. 

827 L.M. 

Tlie well of living water, 

JESUS, the gift divine I know, 
The gift divine I ask of thee ; 
The living water now bestow, 
Thy Spirit and thyself, on me. 

2 For thou of life the fountain art, 
None else can give or take away ; 

O may I find it in my heart. 
And with me may it ever stay. 

3 Thus may I drink, — and thh-st no more 
For drops of finite happiness ; 

Spring up, O well, in heavenly power. 
In streams of pure perennial peace. 

828 . C.M. 

Strength t enewed by waiting upon the Lord, 

LORD, I beheve thy every word. 
Thy every promise true ; 
And lo ! I wait on thee, my Lord, 
Till I my strength renew. 

2 If in this feeble flesh I may 
Awhile show forth thy praise, 

Jesus, support the tott'ring clay. 
And lengthen out my days. 

3 If such a worm as I can spread 
The common Saviour's name. 

Let Him who raised thee from the dead. 
Quicken my mortal frame. 



GROWTH IN GRACE. 491 

4 Still let me live thy blood to show, 

Which purges every stain ; 

And gladly linger out below 

. . A few more years in pain. 

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Christ in you, the hope of glory, 

THOU hidden love of God, whose height. 
Whose depth unfathom'd, no man knows: 

1 see from far thy beauteous light ; 

Inly I sigh for thy repose : 
My heart is pain'd, nor can it be 
At rest, till it finds rest in thee. 

2 Is there a thing beneath the sun, 

That strives with thee my heart to share ? 
Ah, tear it thence, and reign alone. 

The Lord of every motion there ; 
Then shall my heart from earth be free. 
When it hath found repose in thee. 

3 hide this self from me, that I 

No more, but Christ in me, may live : 
My vile affections crucify, 

Nor let one darling lust survive ; 
In all things nothing may I see. 
Nothing desire or seek, but thee. 

4 Love, thy sov'reign aid impart, 

To save me from low-thoughted caro ; 
Chase this self-will through all my heart. 

Through all its latent mazes there : 
Make me thy duteous child, that I, 
Ceaseless, may Abba, Father, cry. 

5 Each moment draw from earth away 
My heart, that lowly waits thy call ; 

Speak to my mmost soul, and say, — 

I am thy love, thy God, thy all ! 
To feel thy power, to hear thy voice. 
To taste thy love, be all my choice. 



t92 DUTIES AND TRIALS. 

830 1st P. M. G liries Ss. 
An eye single to the glory of God. 

BEHOLD ! the servant of the Lord. 
I wait thy guiding hand to feel ; 
To hear and keep thy every word, — 
To prove and do thy perfect will : 
Joyful from my own works to cease, 
Glad to fulfil all righteousness. 

2 And if thy grace vouchsafe to use. 
The meanest of thy creatures, me. 

The deed, the time, the manner choose ; 

Let all my fruit be found of thee : 
Let all my works in thee be wrought, — 
By thee to full perfection brought. 

3 My every weak, though good design, 
O'errule or change, as seems thee meet; 

Jesus, let all my work be thine ! 

Thy work, O Lord, is all complete, 
And pleasing in thy Father's sight ; 
Thou only hast done all things right. 

4 Here, then, to thee thine own I leave ; 
Mould as thou wilt thy passive clay ; 

But let me all thy stamp reoeive, — 

But let me all thy words obey : 
Serve with a single heart and eye. 
And to thy glory live and die. 

831 S. M. 

Pilgrims and sojourners, 

IN every time and place. 
Who serve the Lord most high. 
Are caird his sovereign will t' embrace. 

And still their own deny : 
To follow his command. 

On earth as pilgrims rove. 
And seek an undiscovered land, 
And house and friends above. 



GROWTH m GRACK 493 

2 Father, the narrow path 

To that far country show ; 
And in the steps of Abraham's faith 

Enable me to go : 
A cheerful sojourner 

Where'er thou bidd'st me roam, 
Till, guided by thy Spirit here, 

I reach my heavenly home. 

832 8th p. M. 87,87,47. 
The pilgrim^ s guide and guardian. 

GUIDE me, thou great Jehovah, 
Pilgrim through this barren land : 

1 am weak — but thou art mighty ; 

Hold me with thy powerful hand : 

Bread of heaven. 
Feed me till I want no more. 

2 Open now the crystal fountain, 
Whence the heahng waters flow ; 

Let the fiery, cloudy pillar. 

Lead me all my journey through : 

Strong Deliv'rer, 
Be thou still my strength and shield. 

3 When I tread the verge of Jordan, 
Bid my anxious feare subside : 

Bear me through the swelhng current ; 
Land me safe on Canaan's side ; 

Songs of praises 
I will ever give to thee. 

833 1st P.M. lines 8s. 
The prize of our high calling. 

JESUS, thy boundless love to me 
No thought can reach, no tongue declare ; 
knit my thankful heart to thee. 
And reign without a rival there : 
Thine wholly, thine alone, I am ; 
Be thou alone my constant flame. 



494 DUTIES AND TRIALS. 

2 grant that nothing in my soul 
May dwell, but thy pure love ak»ne : 

may thy love possess me whole, — 

My joy, my treasure, and my crown : 
Strange flames far from my heart remove ; 
My every act, word, thought, be love. 

3 Unwearied may I this pursue ; 
Dauntless to the high prize aspire ; 

Hourly within my soul renew 

This holy flame, this heavenly fiit, : 
And day and night, be all my care 
To guard the sacred treasure there. 

4 In suS''ring be thy love my peace ; 
In weakness be thy love my power ; 

And when the storms of life shall cease, 

Jesus, in that important hour, 
In death as life be thou my guide. 
And save me, who for me hast died. 

834 c. M. 

The race for glory. 

AWAKE, my soul ! stretch every nerve. 
And press with vigour on ; 
A heavenly race demands thy zeal, 
And an immortal crown. 

2 'Tis God's all-animating voice 
That calls thee from on high ; 

'Tis he whose hand presents the prize 
To thine aspiring eye. 

3 A cloud of witnesses around 
Hold thee in full survey ; 

Forget the steps already trod. 
And onward urge thy way. 

4 Blest Saviour ! introduced by thee. 
Our race have we begun ; 

And, crown'd with vict'ry, at thy fret 
We '11 lay our trophies down. 



GROWTH IN GRACR 495 

835 2d F.U, 6 lines Ss. 
Crucified with Christ, 

TTUMBLE, and teachable, and mild, 
XI may I, as a little child, 

My lowly Master's steps pursue ! 
Be anger to my soul unknown ; 
Hate, envy, jealousy, be gone ; 

In love create thou all thincfs new. 

2 Let earth no more my heart divide ; 
With Christ may I be crucified ; 

To thee with my whole heart aspire : 
Dead to the world and all its toys. 
Its idle pomp, and fading joys. 

Be thou alone my one desire. 

3 My will be swallow'd up in thee ; 
Light in thy, light still may I see, 

Beholding thee with open face ; 
CalFd the full power of faith to prove, 
Let all my hallow'd heart be love, 

And all my spotless life be praise. 

4 Come, Holy Ghost, all-quick'ning liie. 
My consecrated heart inspire, 

Spiinkled with the atoning blood : 
Still to my soul thyself reveal : 
Thy mighty working may I feel. 

And know that I am one with God. 

836 CM. 

The sojourner; at th£ feet of Jesus. 

GOD of all grace and majesty, 
Supremely great and good, 
If I have mercy found with thee 

Through the atoning blood ; 
The guard of all thy mercies give, 

And to my pardon join 
A fear lest I should ever grieve 
The Comforter di\ine. 



496 DUTIES AND TRIALS. 

2 If mercy is indeed with tliee, 
May I obedient p/ove, 

Xor e'er abuse my liberty, 

Or sin again?* tliy love : 
This choicest fruit of faith bestow 

On a poor sojourner ; 
And let me pass my days below 

In humbleness and fear. 

3 Still may I walk as in thy sight ; 
My strict observer see ; 

And thou, by rev'rent love, unite 
My child-like heart to thee : 

Still let me, till my days are past, 
At Jesus' feet abide : 

So shall he lift me up at last, 
And seat me by his side. 

837 1st P. M. 6 lines 8s. 

Pilgrims and strangers ; Ivomeward bound, 

LEADER of faithful souls, and guide 
Of all that travel to the sky. 
Come, and with us, e'en us, abide, 
Who would on thee alone rely ; 
On thee alone our spirits stay. 
While held in life's uneven way. 

2 Strangers and pilgrims here below, 
This earth, we know, is not our place ; 

But hasten through the vale of wo. 
And, restless to behold thy face. 
Swift to our heavenly country move. 
Our everlasting home above. 

3 We've no abiding city here. 
But seek a city out of sight ; 

Thither our steady coiu-se we steei, 
Aspiring to the plains of light,- ^■ 
Jerusalem, the saints' abode. 
Whose founder is the hvins: God. 



GROWTH m GRACE. 497 

4 Patient the' appointed race to run. 

This weary world we cast beliind ; 
From streno;th to strencrth we trave] on, 

The New Jerusalem to find : 
Our labour this, our only aim, 
To find the New Jerusalem. 
o Through thee, who all om^ sins hast borae, 

Freely and graciously forgiven, 
With songs to Zion we retm*n, 

Contending for our native heaven ; 
That palace of our glorious King, — 
We find it nearer while we sing. 
6 Raised by the breath of love divine, 

We urge our way, with strength renewed ; 
The church of the first-born to join, 

We travel to the mount of God : 
With joy upon our heads arise, 
And meet our Saviour in the skies. 

838 5th P. M. 4li7i€s 16. 

llie pilgrim's song. 

CHILDREN of the heavenly King, 
As we journey let us sing ; 
Sing om' Saviom^'s worthy praise. 
Glorious in his works and ways. 

2 We are traveling home to God, 
In the way our fathers trod ; 
They are happy now, and we 
Soon theh happiness shall see. 

3 ye banish'd seed, be glad ; 
Christ our Advocate is made : 
Us to save our flesh assumes, — 
Brother to our souls becomes. 

4 Fear not, brethren, joyful stand 
On the bordei-s of om* land ; 
Jesus Chi-ist, our Father's Son, 
Bids us undismayed go on. 

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498 DUTIES AND TRIALS. 

5 Lord ! obediently we '11 go, 
Gladly leaving all below: 
Only thou our leader be. 
And we still will follow thee. 

839 c. M. 

God's pavilion. 

GRANT me within thy courts a place, 
Among thy saints a seat, 
Forever to behold thy face. 
And worship at thy feet: — 

2 In thy pavilion to abide, 
When storms of trouble blow. 

And in thy tabernacle hide. 
Secure from every foe. 

3 Seek ye my face ; — without delay, 
When thus I hear thee speak, 

My heart would leap for joy, and say, — 
Thy face, Lord, will I seek. 

4 Then leav^e me not when griefs assail. 
And eaithly comforts flee ; 

When father, mother, kindred fail. 
My God ! remember me. 

840 L. M. 

Your life is hid with Christ in God. 

TE faithful souls, who Jesus know. 
If risen indeed with him ye are, 
Superior to the joys below. 

His resurrection's power declare. 

2 Your faith by holy tempers prove : 
By actions show your sins forgiven: 

And seek the glorious things above, 

And follow Christ your head to heaven. 

3 There your exalted Saviour see, 
Seated at God's right hand again, 

In all his Father's majesty, 
In everlasting pomp to reign. 



GROWTH IN GKACE. 499 

4 To him continually aspire. 
Contending for your native place ; 

And emulate the angel choir, 
And only hve to love and praise. 

5 For who by faith your Lord receive, 
Ye nothing seek or want beside ; 

Dead to the world and sin ye live ; 
Your creature-love is crucified. 

6 Your real life, with Christ concealed. 
Deep in the Father's bosom lies ; 

And glorious as your Head reveal'd, 
Ye soon shall meet him in the skies 

841 s. M. 

Now we see through a glass^ darkly. 

THY way is in the sea ; 
Thy paths we cannot trace ; 
Nor solve, Lord, the mystery 
Of thy unbounded grace. 

2 Here the dark veils of sense 
Om' captive souls surround ; 

Mysterious deeps of providence 
Our wond'rino: thouo-hts confound. 

3 As through a glass we see 
The wonders of thy love ; 

How little do we know of thee. 
Or of the joys above ! 

4 In part we know thy will, 
And bless thee for the sight: 

Soon will thy love the rest reveal 
In glory's clearer Ught. 

5 With joy shall we survey 
Thy providence and grace; 

And spend an everlasting day 
In wonder, love, and praise. 



500 DUTIES AND TRIALS. 

842 C. M. 

Walk in the light. 

¥ALR in the light ! so shalt thou kno^v 
That fellowship of love. 
His Spirit only can bestow 
Who reigns in light above. 

2 Walk in the light ! and thou shalt find 
Thy heart made truly His 

Who dwells in cloudless hght enshrined, 
In whom no darkness is. 

3 Walk in the hght ! and thou shalt own 
Thy darkness pass'd away, 

Because that. Light hath on thee shone 
In which is perfect day. 

4 Walk in the hght ! and e'en the tomb 
No fearful shade shall wear; 

Glory shall chase away its gloom. 
For Christ hath conquered there. 

5 Walk in the light ! thy path shall be 
Peaceful, serene, and bright: 

For God, by grace, shall dwell in thee. 
And God himself is light. 

843 L. M. 

Meekness. 

HAPPY the meek, whose gentle breast, 
Clear as the summer's evening ray. 
Calm as the regions of the blest, 
Enjoys on earth celestial day. 

2 His heart no broken friendships sting ; 
No jars his peaceful tent invade ; 

He rests beneath the Almighty's wing, 
Hostile to none— of none afraid. 

3 Spirit of grace ! all meek and mild, 
Inspu'e our hearts, — our souls possess , 

Repel each passion rude and wild. 
And bless us, as we aim to bless. 



OEOWTH IN GRACE. 501 

844 «• M. 

Charity, or Love. 

HAD I the gift of tongues, 
Great God, without thy grace, 
My loudest words, my loftiest songs, 
Would be but sounding brass. 

2 Though thou shouldst give me skill 
Each myst'ry to explain ; 

Without a heart to do thy will, 
My knowledge would be vam. 

3 Had I such faith in God, 
As mountains to remove, 

No faith could work effectual good, 
That did not work by love. 

4 Grant, then, this one request,— 
Whatever be denied, — 

That love di\dne may rule my breast. 
And all my actions guide. 

845 C. M. 

Gratitude. 

VHEN all thy mercies, my God, 
My rising soul sm-veys, 
Transported with the view, I 'm lost 
In wonder, love, and praise. 

2 how can words vni\\ equal warmth 
The gratitude declare, 

That glows within my ra^dsh'd heart? — 
But thou canst read it there. 

3 To all my weak complaints and cries, 
Thy mercy lent an ear, 

Ere yet my feeble thoughts had leam'd 
To form themselves in prayer. 

4 Wlien in the shpp'iy paths of youth. 
With heedless steps, I ran; 

Thine ann, unseen, conveyed me safe. 
And led me up to man 



502 DUTIES AND TRIALS. 

5 Through hidden dangers, toils, and deatns. 

It gently clear'd my way ; 
And through the pleasing snares of vice, 

More to be fear'd than they. 

Through every period of my life 
Thy goodness I '11 pursue ; 

And after death, in distant worlds. 
The pleasing theme renew. 

1 Through all eternity to thee 
A grateful song I '11 raise ; 

But ! eternity 's too short 
To utter all thy praise. 

846 4th P. M. 886, 886 

Gratitude evinced hy living to God's glory. 

BE it my only wisdom here, 
To serve the Lord with filial fear, 
With lo\ing gratitude : 
Superior sense may I display. 
By shunning every evil way. 
And walking in the good. 

2 may I still from sin depart; 
A wise and understanding heart, 

Jesus, to me be given: 
And let me through thy Spirit know 
To glorify my God below. 

And find my way to heaven. 

847 L. M. 

Security and safety. 

GOD is our refuge and defence ; 
In trouble our unfailing aid : 
Secure in his omnipotence. 

What foe can make our souls afraid? 
2 Yea, though the earth's foundations rock, 
And moimtains down the gulf be hurl'd, 
His people smile amid the shock : 

Tliey look beyond this transient world. 



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3 There is a river pure and bright, 

Whose streams make glad the heavenly plains ; 
Wliere in eternity of light 
The city of our God remains. 

4 Built by the word of his command, 
With his unclouded presence blest, 

Firm as his throne the bulwarks stand ; 
There is our home, our hope, our rest. 

848 IstF.M, 6 lines 8s. 

The good Shepherd, 

THE Lord my pasture shall prepare, 
And feed me with a shepherd's care; 
His presence shall my wants supply, 
And guard me with a watchful eye : 
My noon-day walks he shall attend, 
And all my midnight hours defend. 

2 When in the sultry glebe I faint, 
Or on the thirsty mountain pant. 
To feitile vales and dewy meads. 
My weary, wand 'ring steps he leads. 
Where peaceful rivers, soft and slow, 
Amid the verdant landscape flow. 

3 Though in a bare and rugged way. 
Through de\'ious, lonely wilds I stray, 
Thy bounty shall my pains beguile. 
The baiTen wilderness shall smile. 

With sudden greens and herbage crowned, 
And streams shall murmur all around. 

4 Though in the paths of death I tread. 
With gloomy horrors overspread. 

My steadfast heart shall fear no ill. 
For thou, Lord, art with me still : 
Thy friendly crook shall give me aid, 
And guide me through the dreadful shade* 



504 DUTIES AND TRIALS. 

849 27th P.M. 4 lines Us. 
Rejoicing in the care of the good Shepherd. 

THE Lord is my Shepherd, no want shall I know ; 
I feed in green pastures, safe-folded I rest ; 
He leadeth my soul where the still waters flow, 
Restores me when wand'ring, redeems when 
oppress'd. 

2 Through the valley and shadow of death though 

I stray, 
Since thou art my guardian, no evil I fear; 
Thy rod shall defend me, thy staflF be my stay ; 
No harm can befall, with my Comforter near. 

3 In the midst of affliction my table is spread ; 
With blessings unmeasured my cup runneth o'er ; 

With oil and perfume thou anointest my head ; 
what shall I ask of thy providence more ? 

4 Let goodness and mercy, my bountiful God, 
Still follow my steps till I meet thee above ; 

I seek — by the path which my forefathers trod. 
Through the land of their sojourn — thy kingdom 
of love. 

850 c. M. 

Are they not all ministering spirits ? 

WHICH of the monarchs of the earth 
Can boast a guard like ours, — 
Encircled from our second birth 
With all the heavenly powers ? 

2 Mjriads of bright, cherubic bands, 
Sent by the King of kings, 

llejoice to bear us in their hands, 
And shade us with their wings. 

3 Angels, where'er we go, attend 
Our steps, whatever betide ; 

With watchful care their charge defend, 
And evil turn aside. 



GROWl^ IN GRACE. 505 

4 Our lives those holy angels keep 
From every hostile power ; 

And, unconcern'd, we sweetly sleep, 
As Adam in his bower. 

5 And when om* spirits we resign, 
On outstretched wings they bear. 

And lodge us in the arms divine, 
And leave us ever there. 

851 24th P. M. 66, 66, 86, 86. 

The guardianship of angels, 

YE simple souls, that stray 
Far from the path of peace. 
That unfrequented way 

To Ufe and happiness: 
How long Avill ye your folly love, 

And throng the downward road, 
And hate the wisdom from above. 
And mock the sons of God ? 

2 So wi'etched and obscm-e. 
The men whom ye despise. 

So foolish, weak, and poor, — 

Above your scorn we rise : 
Our conscience in the Holy Ghost, 

Can witness better things ; 
For He whose blood is all our boast, 

Hath made us priests and kings. 

3 Riches unsearchable 

In Jesus' love we know; 
And pleasures from the well 

Of life, our souls overflow: 
From him the Spirit we receive 

Of Avisdom, grace, and power ; 
And always sorrowful we live. 

Rejoicing evermore. 



506 DUTIES AND TRIALS. 

4 Angels oui' servants are, 

And keep in all our ways, 
And in their hands they bear 

The sacred sons of grace : 
Our guardians to that heavenly bliss, 

They all our steps attend; 
And God himself our Father is, 

And Jesus is our friend. 

852 1st P. M. 6 lines Ss. 

TJie filial conquest explains all mysteries, 

THOU, Lord, on whom I still depend, 
Shalt keep me faithful to the end : 

1 tinist thy truth, and love, and power. 
Shall save me till my latest hour; 
And when I lay this body down. 
Reward with an immortal crown. 

2 Jesus, in thy great name I go. 
To conquer death, my final foe ; 
And when I quit this cumbrous clay, 
And soar on angels' wings away. 

My soul the second death defies. 
And reigns eternal in the skies. 

3 Eye hath not seen, nor ear hath heard. 
What Christ has for his saints prepared. 
Who conquer through their Saviour's migJit., 
Who sink into perfection's height. 

And trample death beneath their feet. 
And gladly die their Lord to meet. 

4 Dost thou desire to know or see 
What thy mysterious name shall be? 
Contending for thy heavenly home, 
Thy 1m test foe in death o'ercome ;; — 
Till then thou searcliest out in vain. 
What only conquest can explain. 



HUMILIATION. 



UNFAITHFULNESS MOURNED. 

853 ... C. M. 

Lamenting spiritual sloth. 

MY drowsy poAvers, why sleep ye so? 
Awake, my sluggish soul: 
Nothmg hath half thy work to do, 
Yet nothing 's half so dull. 

2 Go to the ants ! for one poor gram 
See how they toil and strive ; 

Yet we who have a heaven to' obtain, 
How negligent we live ! — 

3 We, for whose sake all nature stands. 
And stars their courses move ; 

We, for whose guard the angel bands 
Come flying from above : — 

4 We, for whom God the Son came down. 
And labom-'d for our good ; 

How careless to secure that crown 
He pm'chased with his blood! 

5 Lord, shall we live so sluggish still, 
And never act our parts ? 

Come, holy Dove, from the' heavenly hill. 
And warm our frozen hearts ! 

6 Give us with active warmth to move, 
With Aig'rous souls to rise; 

With liands of faith, and wings of love. 
To fly and take the prize. 

854 L. M. 

Zeal implored. 

OTHOU, who all things canst control, 
Chase this dread slumber from my soul ; 
With joy and fear, with love and awe, 
Give me to keep thy perfect laAv. 



508 HUMILIATION'. 

2 may one beam of thy blest light 
Pierce through, dispel, the shade of night : 
Touch my cold breast with heavenly fire; 
With holy, conqu'ring zeal inspire. 

3 For zeal I sigh, for zeal I pant ; 
Yet heavy is my soul, and faint : 
With steps unwav'ring, undismayed. 
Give me in all thy paths to tread. 

4 With outstretch'd hands, and streammg eyes, 
Oft I begin to grasp the prize : 

I groan, I strive, I watch, I pray; 
But ah ! my zeal soon dies away. 

5 The deadly slumber then I feel 
Afresh upon my spirit steal : 

Rise, Lord, stir up thy quick'ning power, 
And wake me that I sleep no more. 

855 5th P.M. 4: Urns 1^ 

Instability. 

JESUS, shall I never be 
Firmly grounded upon thee ? 
Never by thy work abide ? 
Never in thy wounds reside ? 

2 how wav'ring is my mind, 
Toss'd about witli every wind ; 
how quickly doth my heart 
From the living God depart. 

3 Jesus, let my nature feel 
Thou art God unchangeable : 
Jah, Jehovah, great I AM, 
Speak into my soul thy Name. 

4 Grant that every moment I 
May beUeve and feel thee nigh ; 
Steadfastly behold thy face, 
'Stablish'd witli abidinof (Trace. 



UNFAITHFULNESS MOURNED. 509 

856 L-M. 

Inconstancy lamented. 

VHEN, my Saviour, shall it be. 
That I no more shall break with thee? 
When will this Avar of passion cease, 
And I enjoy a lasting peace ? 

2 NoAV I repent ; now sin again : 
Now I revive ; and now am slain : 
Slain with the same malignant dart, 
Which, ! too often wounds thy heart. 

3 When, gracious Lord, when shall it be, 
That I shall find my all in thee, — 

The fulness of thy promise prove, 
And feast on thine eternal love ? 

857 c. M. 

The vanity oj mere formality. 

LONG have I seem'd to serve thee. Lord, 
With unavailing pain ; 
Fasted, and pray'd, and read thy word. 
And heard it preach'd in vain. 

2 Oft did I with the' assembly join, 
And near thy altar drew : 

A form of godliness was mine, — 
The power, I never knew. 

3 I rested in the outward law, 
No'r knew its deep design : 

The length and breadth, I never saw. 
And height, of love divine. 

4 To please thee, thus at length I see. 
Vainly I hoped and strove ; 

For what are outward things to thee. 
Unless they spring from love 'i 

5 I see the perfect law requires 
Truth in the inward parts ; 

Om- full consent, our whole desires. 
Our imdivided hearts. 



510 HUMILIATION. 

6 But I of means have made my boast ; 
Of means an idol made : 

The spirit in the letter lost, — 
The substance, in the shade. 

7 Where am I now, or what my hope? 
What can my weakness do? 

Jesus, to thee my soul looks up : 
"lis thou must make it new. 

858 . L. M. 

i^o peace hut in the favour of God. 

WHERE is now that glowing love 
That mark'd our union with the Lord? 
Our hearts were fix'd on things above, 
Nor could the w^orld a joy afford. 

2 Where is the zeal that led us then 
To make our Saviour's glory known? 

That freed us from the fear of men, 
And kept our eye on him alone? 

3 Where are the happy seasons, spent 
In fellowship with him we loved? 

The sacred joy, the sweet content. 

The blessedness that then we proved ? 

4 Behold, again we turn to thee ; 
0, cast us not away, though vile : 

No peace we have, no joy we see, 
Lord our God, but in thy smile. 

859 . L.M. 

The sptrit of the ajicient worthies 

OFOR that flame of living fire. 
Which shone so bright in saints of old ; 
Which bade their souls to heaven aspire, — 

Calm in distress, in danger bold. 
2 Where is that Spirit, Lord, which dwelt 

In Abrah'm's breast, and seal'd him thine ? 
Which made Paul's heart with sorrow melt, 
And glow with energy divine ? — 



UNFAITHFULNESS MOURNED- bll 

3 'fliat Spirit, wliich from age to age 
Proclaim'd thy love, and taught thy ways '^ 

Brighten'd Isaiah's vivid page, 
• And breathed in David's hallow'd lays ? 

4 Is not thy grace as mighty now 
As when Elijah felt its power ; 

When glory beam'd from Moses' brow, 
Or Job endured the trying hour ? 

5 Remember, Lord, the ancient days ; 
Renew thy work ; thy grace restore ; 

And while to thee our hearts we raise. 
On us thy Holy Spirit pour. 

860 1st P. M. 6 lines 8s. 

Broken vows lamented. 

OGOD ! how often hath thine ear 
To me in ^villing mercy bow'd; 
Wliile, worshipping thine altar near, 

Lowly I wept, and strongly vow'd : 
But ah ! the feebleness of man ! 
Have I not vow'd and wept in vain? 
2 Return, Lord of Hosts, return ! 

Behold thy servant in distress ; 
My faithlessness again I mom^n ; 

Again forgive my faithlessness ; 
And to thine arms of mercy take. 
And bless me for the Sa\iour's sake. 

861 s. M. 

The warning voice of Jestcs. 

GRACIOUS Redeemer, shake 
This slumber from my soul ! 
Say to me now, — Awake, awake! 

And Christ shall make thee whole. 
2 Lay to thy mighty hand ; 

Alarm me in this hour ; 
And make me fully imderstand 
The thunder of thy power. 



512 HUMILIATION. 

3 Give me on thee to call, — 
Always to watch and pray, 

Lest I into temptation fall, 
And cast my shield away. 

4 For each assault prepared. 
And ready may I be ; 

Forever standing on my guard. 
And looking up to thee. 

5 do thou always warn 
My soul of evil near ; 

When to the right or left I turn, 
Thy voice still let me hear: — 

6 Come back ! this is the way ; 
Come back, and walk therein ; 

O may I hearken and obey, 
And shim the paths of sin. 

862 1st P. M. 6 lines 8s. 

Pleading for restoriiig grace. 

O'TIS enough, my God, my God ! 
Here let me give my w^and 'rings o'er : 
"No longer trample on thy blood. 

And grieve thy gentleness no more ; 
No more thy ling' ring anger move. 
Or sin against thy light and love. 

2 Lord, if mercy is with thee, 
Now let it unto me be shown ; 

To me, the chief of sinners, me. 

Who humbly for thy mercy groan: 
Me to thy Father's grace restore, 
Nor let me ever grieve thee more. 

3 Fountain of unexhausted love, — 
Of infinite compassion, — hear : 

My Saviom', and my Prince above. 
Once more in my behalf appear : 
Repentance, faith, and pardon give: 
O let me turn again and live ! 



UNFAITHFULNESS MOURNED. 513 

863 . C. M. 

Faintj yet pursuhig. 

AS pants the hart for cooling streams, 
When heated in the chase, 
So longs my soul, God, for thee. 
And thy refreshing grace. 

2 For thee, my God — the living God, 
My thirsty soul doth pine; 

0, when shall I behold thy face. 
Thou Majesty divine ! 

3 I sigh to think of happier days, 
When thou, Lord, wast nigh ; 

When every heart was tuned to praise, 
And none more blest than I. 

4 Why restless, why cast down, my soul 
Hope still, and thou shalt sing 

The praise of him who is thy God, 
Thy Sa\iour, and thy King. 

864 C.M. 

f shall be satisfied when I awake in thy likeness, 

JESUS, the all-restoring Word, 
My fallen spirit's hope, 
After thy lovely Ukeness, Lord, 
Ah ! when shall I wake up ? 

2 Thou, my God, thou only art 
The Life, the Truth, tlie Way ; 

Quicken my soul, instruct my heart. 
My sinking footsteps stay. 

3 Of all thou hast in earth below, 
In heaven above, to give. 

Give me thy only love to know, — 
In thee to walk and live. 

4 Fill me with all the life of love , 
In mystic union join 

Me to thyself, and let me prove 
The fellowship divine. 

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514 HUMILIATION. 

5 Open the intercourse betTve^n 

My longing soul and thee, 
Never to be broke off again 

To all eternity. 

865 S. M. 

Restore my peace. 

AND wilt thou yet be found. 
And may I still draw near? 
Then listen to the plaintive sound 
Of a poor sinner's prayer. 

2 Jesus, thine aid afford, 

If still the same thou art : 
To thee I look, to thee, my Lord, 
I lift my helpless heart. 

3 Thou seest my troubled breast, 
The strugglings of my will. 

The foes that interrupt my rest, 
The agonies I feel. 

4 my offended Lord, 
Restore my inward peace ; 

1 know thou canst; pronounce the word. 
And bid the tempest cease. 

5 I long to see thy face; 
Thy Spirit I implore, — 

The living water of thy grace. 
That I may thirst no more. 

866 L. M. 

Danger of final apostasy. 

AH ! Lord, with trembling I confess, 
A gi'acious soul may fall from grace ; 
The salt may lose its seas'ning power, 
And never, never find it more. 

2 Lest that my fearful case should be, 
Each moment knit my soul to thee; 
And lead me to the mount above, 
Throuofh the low vale of humble love. 



BACKSLIDINGS LAMENTED. 515 



BACKSLIDINGS LAMENTED. 

867 L. M. 

Imkewarmness. 

GOD of unspotted purity, 
Us, and our works, canst thou behold? 
Justly are they abhorr'd by thee, 

Whose works are neither hot nor cold. 

2 Better that we had never known 

The way to heaven, through saving grace. 
Than basely in our lives disown, 

And slight and mock thee to thy face. 

3 let us out' own works forsake ; 
Oui'selves and all we have deny: 

Thy condescending counsel take ; 

And come to thee, pure gold to buy. 

4 may we through thy grace attain 
The faith thou never wilt reprove; — 

The faith that purges every stain, — 
The faith that always works by love. 

868 . L. M. 

Hmnhle confession. 

SAVIOUR, I now with shame confess 
My thirst for creature happiness ; 
By base desires I wrong'd thy love. 
And forced thy mercy to remove. 

2 Yet, the riches of thy grace ! 
Thou, who hast seen my evil ways, 
Wilt freely my backslidings heal. 
And pardon on my conscience seal. 

3 Yea, for thy truth and mercy's sake. 
My comfort thou wilt give me back ; 
And lead me on from grice to grace. 
In all the paths of righteousness : 



51(J HUMILIATION. 

4 Till throughly saved my new-born soul, 
And perfectly by faith made whole. 
Shall bright in thy full image rise, 
To share thy glory in the skies. 

869 c. M. 

Lamenting the absence of the Spirit. 

OFOR a closer walk with God, — 
A calm and heavenly frame ; 
A. light to shine upon the road 
That leads me to the Lamb. 

2 Where is the blessedness I knew, 
When first I saw the Lord ? 

Where is the soul-refreshing view 
Of Jesus and his word ? 

3 What peaceful hours I once enjoy 'd! 
How sweet their mem'ry still ! 

But they have left an aching void 
The w^orld can never fill. 

4 Return, holy Dove, return. 
Sweet messenger of rest : 

I hate the sins that made thee mouni, 

And di'ove thee from my breast. 
6 The dearest idol I have known, 

Whate'er that idol be. 
Help me to tear it from thy throne, 

And worship only thee. 
6 So shall my walk be close with God, 

Calm and serene my frame; 
So purer light shall mark the road 

That leads me to the Lamb. 

870 C. M. 

Mourning departed joys. 

SWEET was the time when first I felt 
The Saviom-'s pard'ning blood 
Applied to cleanse my soul from guilt, 
And bring me home to God. 



BACKSLIDINGS LAMENTED. 517 

2 Soon as the morn the light reveal'd, 
His praises tuned my tongue ; 

And when the evening shades prevaiFd, 
His love was all my song. 

3 In prayer my soul drew near iLe Li^d, 
And saw his glory shine ; 

And when I read his holy word, 
I caird each promise mine. 

4 But now, when evening shade prevails, 
My soul in darkness mourns ; 

And when the morn the hght reveals, 
No Ught to me returns. 

5 Rise, Lord, and help me to prevail; 
make my soul thy care ; 

1 know thy mercy cannot fail ; — 
Let me that mercy share. 

871 1st P. M. 6 lines 8s. 

Heal my hackslidings. 

JESUS, full of truth and grace,— 
More full of grace than I of sin, — 
Yet once again I seek thy face ; 

Open thine aims and take me in! 
And freely my backsUdings heal, 
And love the faithless sinner still. 

2 Thou know'st the way to bring me back,— 
My fallen spirit to restore ; 

! for thy truth and mercy's sake, 

Forgive, and bid me sin no more : 
The ruins of my soul repair. 
And make my heart a house of prayer. 

3 Ah, give me, Lord, the tender heart. 
That trembles at the' approach of sin ; 

A godly fear of sin impart ; 

Implant and lOot it deep within. 
That I may dread thy gracious power. 
And nBver dari to' oflfend thee more. 



518 HUMILIATION. 

872 s. M 

Restore my peace. 

JESUS ! full of grace, 
To thee I make my moan : 
Let me again behold thy face — 
Call home thy banish'd one. 

2 Again my pardon seal, 
Again my soul restore. 

And freely my backsUdings heal, 
And bid me sin no more. 

3 Wilt thou not bid me rise ? 
Speak, and my soul shall live; 

Forgive, — my gasping spirit cries, — 
Abundantly forgive. 

4 Thine utmost mercy show; 
Say to my drooping soul, — 

In peace and full assurance go ; 
Thy faith hath made thee whole. 

873 c. M. 

Loss of first love. 

OTHAT I were as heretofore. 
When, wai-m in my first love, 

1 only lived my God to' adore. 
And seek the things above. 

2 Upon my head his candle shone, 
And, lavish of his grace. 

With cords of love he drew me on. 
And half unveil' d his face. 

3 Far, far above all earthly things 
Triumphantly I rode; 

I soar'd to heaven on eagles' wings, 
And found, and talk'd with God. 

4 Where am I now ? from what a height 
Of happiness cast down ! 

The glory swallow'd up in night, 
And faded is the crown. 



BACKSLIDINGS LAMENTED. 519 

5 God, thou art my home, my rcst> 

For which I sigh in pain ; 
How shall I 'scape into thy breast? 

My Eden how regain? 

874 S. M. 

God's absence deprecated. 

OTHOU, whose mercy hears 
Contrition's humble sigh; 
Whose hand, indulgent, wipes the tears 
From sorrow's weeping eye ; — 

2 See, at thy throne of grace, 
A wretched wand'rer mourn: 

Hast thou not bid me seek thy face? 
Hast thou not said, — Return? 

3 Shall guilty fears prevail 
To drive me from thy feet? 

O let not this last refuge fail, — 
This only safe retreat. 

4 Absent from thee, my Light, 
Without one cheermg ray, — 

Through dangers, fears, and gloomy night. 
How desolate my way! 

5 On this benighted heart, 
With beams of mercy shine ; 

And let thy voice again impart 
A taste of joy di\ine. 

875 12th P. M. 76,76,78,76. 

The deceitfidness of si7i. 

JESUS, friend of sinners, hear 
YeL once again, I pray ; 
From my debt of sin set clear. 

For I have naught to pay: 
Speak, speak the kind release; 

A poor backshding soul restore; 
Love me freely, seal my peace. 
And bid me sin no more. 



520 . HUMILIATION. 

2 For my selfishness and pride 
Thou hast withdrawn thy grace ; 

Left me long to wander wide, 

An outcast from thy face ; 
But I now my sins confess, 

And mercy, mercy, I implore ; 
Love me freely, seal my peace, 

And bid me sin no more. 

3 Sin's deceitfulness hath spread 
A hardness o'er my heart; 

But if thou thy Spirit shed. 

The stony shall depart : 
Shed thy love, thy tenderness. 

And let me feel thy soft'ning power ; 
Love me freely, seal my peace. 

And bid me sin no more. 

876 3d p. M. 4 6s & 2 Ijs, 

Seeking restoration. 

WHERE is the Saviour now. 
Whose smiles I once possessed? 
Till he return, I bow. 

By heavy grief oppress'd : 
My days of happmess are gone. 
And I am left to weep alone. 

2 Where can the mourner go. 
And tell his tale of grief? 

Ah, who can soothe his wo. 
Ah, who can give relief? 
Earth cannot heal the wounded breast, 
Or give the troubled conscience rest. 

3 Jesus, thy smiles impart ; 
My gracious Lord, return. 

Bind up my broken heart. 
And bid me cease to mourn : 
Then shall this night of sorrow flee. 
And peace and heaven be found in thee. 



BACKSL [DINGS LAMENTED. 521 

877 10th P. M. 8 ums 8&. 
Forgiveness implored. 

HOW shall a lost sinner in pain, 
Recover his forfeited peace? 
When brought into bondage again, 

What hope of a second release ? 
Will mercy itself be so kind 

To spare a backslider like me ? 
And 0, can I possibly find 

Such plenteous redemption in vce? 
2 Jesus, of thee I inquire, 

If still thou art able to save, — 
The brand to pluck out of the fire, 

And ransom my soul from the grave? 
The help of thy Spirit restore ; 

O, show me the life-gi\dng blood , 
And pardon a sinner once more, 

And bring me again unto God. 

878 c. M. 

Vain repentances. 

TIMES ^dthout number have I pray'd, — 
This only once forgive ; 
Relapsing when thy hand was stay'd. 

And suffer' d me to live : 
2 Yet now the kingdom of thy peace. 

Lord, to my heart restore ; 
Forgive my vain repentances. 
And bid me sin no more. 

879 1st P. M. 6 lines 8s. 
Resolution to return. 

rlS, from this instant, now, I will 
To my ofiended Father cry; 
My base ingratitude I feel ; 

Vilest of all thy children, I ; 
Not worthy to be call'd thy son ; 
Yet will I thee my Father own. 



522 HUMILIAnON. 

2 Guide of my life hast thou not been, 
And rescued me from passion's power? 

Ten thousand times preserved from sin, 

N"or let the greedy grave devour? 
And wilt thou now thy wrath retain, 
Nor ever love thy child again? 

3 If thou hast calFd me to return, — 
If weeping at thy feet I fall, — 

The prodigal thou wilt not spurn. 

But pity and forgive me all, 
In answer to my Friend above, — 
In honour of his bleeding love. 

880 s. M. 

The wanderer returning. 

HOW oft this wretched heart 
Has wander'd from the Lord ; 
How oft my roving thoughts depart, 
Forgetful of his word. 

2 Yet mercy calls, — Return ; 
Sa^iour, to thee I come : 

My \ile ingratitude I mourn; 
O take the wand'rer home ! 

3 Thy love, so free, so sweet. 
Blest Saviour, I adore ; 

0, keep me at thy sacred feet, 
And let me rove no more. 

881 s. M. 

Restored by grace, 

JESUS, if thy free grace 
Again hath raised me up. 
And caird me still to seek thy face. 

And given me back my hope, — 
Thy timely help afford. 

Thy loving-lflndness show; 
keep me, keep me, gracious Lord, 
And never let me go. 



BACKSLIDINGS LAMENTED. 523 

2 By me, my Sa\dour, stand, 
In sore temptation's hour; 

save me with thine out- stretch 'd hand, 
And show forth all thy power. 

Be mindful of thy word ; 
Sufficient grace bestow; 

keep me, keep me, gracious Lord, 
And never let me go. 

3 Give me a holy fear. 
And fix it in my heart; 

That thus I may from evil near 

With timely care depart; 
Be every sin abhorr'd. 

Till thou destroy the foe ; 
keep me, keep me, gracious Lord, 

And never let me go. 

882 s. M. 

Rejoicing in Chrisfs restoring love. 

SPEAK that word again ; 
It cheers my drooping heart : 
How sweetly doth it soothe my pain, 
And bid my fears depart. 

2 And dost thou deign to o^vn 
A worm so vile as I? 

And may I still approach thy tlu'one, 
And Abba, Father, cry ? 

3 My Saviour, by his word, 
Hath tm^n'd my night to day; 

And all those heavenly joy& restored. 
Which I had sinn'd away. 

4 I wonder and adore : 
The grace is all divine : 

Lord, keep me, that I sin nn more 
Against such love as thine. 



524 HUMILIATION. 

883 12th P. M. 76, Y6, 78, 76. 

Tears of joy 

LORD, and is thine anger gone, — 
And art thou pacified? 
After all that I have done, 

Dost thou no longer chide ? 
Let thy love my heart constrain. 

And all my restless passions sway : 
Keep me, lest I turn again 
Out of the narrow way. 

2 To the cross, thine altar, bind 
Me with the cords of love ; 

Freedom never let me find 

From thee, my Lord, to move : 

That I never, never more 

May with my much-loved Master part, 

To the posts of mercy's door, 
nail my wilhng heart ! 

3 See my utter helplessness. 
And leave me not alone ; 

preserve in perfect peace. 
And seal me for thine own : 

More and more thyself reveal. 

Thy presence let me always find ; 

Comfort, and confirm, and heal 
My feeble, sin-sick mind. 

4 As the apple of thine eye. 
Thy weakest servant keep ; 

Help me at thy feet to he. 

And there forever weep : 
Tears of joy mine eyes o'erflow, 

That I have any hope of heaven ; 
Much of love I ought to know, 

For I have much forgiven. 



REJOICING: 

IN 

DELIVERANCE FROM TROUBLE. 

884 ^ s. M. 

The loving-kindness of the Lord. 

BLESS the Lord, my soul ; 
His grace to thee proclaim ; 
And all that is within me, join 
To bless his holy Name. 

2 The Lord forgives thy sins, — 
Prolongs thy feeble breath ; 

He healeth thine infirmities. 
And ransoms thee from death. 

3 He clothes thee with his love, — 
Upholds thee with his truth ; 

And hke the eagle he renews 
The vigour of thy youth. 

4 Then bless his holy Name 

Wliose grace hath made thee whole; 
Whose loving-kindness crowns thy days: 

bless the Lord, my soul. 

885 c. M. 

Grateful acknowledgment. 

ILOYE the Lord : he heard my cries. 
And pitied every groan : 
Long as I live, when troubles rise, 

1 '11 hasten to liis thi'one. 

2 I love the Lord : he bow'd liis ear, 
And chased my grief away : 

O let my heart no more despair, 
While I have breath to pray. 

3 The Lord beheld me sore distressed 
He bade my pains remove : 

Return, my soul, to God thy rest. 
For thou hast known his love. 



026 REJOICING IN 

886 25th p. M. Y7, 87, n, 87. 

Fearless in the fire of tribulation. 

HEAD of the Church triumphant. 
We joyfully adore thee ; 
Till thou appear, thy members here 

Shall sing like those in glory : 
We lift our hearts and voices 

With blest anticipation; 
And cry aloud, and give to God 
The praise of our salvation. 

2 Thou dost conduct thy people 
Through torrents of temptation ; 

Nor will we fear, while thou art near, 

The fire of tribulation : 
The world, with sin and Satan, 

In vain our march opposes ; 
By thee we shall break through them alL 

And sing the song of Moses. 

3 By faith we see the glory 

To which thou shalt restore us; 
The cross despise for that high prize 

Which thou hast set before us : 
And if thou count us worthy. 

We each, as dying Stephen, 
Shall see thee stand, at God's right hand. 

To take us up to heaven. 

887 25th P. M. V7, 87, V7,87. 

Triumphing in delivering grace, 

¥ORSHIP, and thanks, and blessing, 
And strength ascribe to Jesus ; — 
Jesus alone defends his own, 

When earth and hell oppress us. 
Jesus with joy we witness. 

Almighty to deUver; 
Our seals set to, that God is true, 
And reigns a King forever. 



DELIVERANCE FROM TROUBLE. 527 

2 Omnipotent Redeemer, 

Onr ransom'd souls adore thee ; 
Our Saviour thou, we find it now. 

And give thee all the glorv. 
We sing thine arm unshorteii i, 

Brought through our sore temptation : 
With heart and voice in thee rejoice. 

The God of our salvation. 

3 The world's and Satan's mahce, 
Thou, Jesus, hast confounded ; 

And by thy grace, ^vith songs of praise, 

Our happy souls resounded. 
Accepting our deUv'rance, 

We triimiph in thy favour; 
And for the love which now we prove. 

Shall praise thy name forever. 

888 1st P. M. 6 Urns 8s 

TJi£ ever-pres€7it Saviour. 

JESUS, to thee our hearts we lift, 
Our hearts with love to thee o'erflow, 
With thanks for thy continued gift. 

That still thy gracious Name we know; 
Retain our sense of sin forgiven. 
And wait for all our inward heaven. 

2 What mighty troubles hast thou shown 
Thy feeble, tempted foll'wers here : 

We hav^e tlirough fii'e and water gone ; 

But saw thee on the floods appear, 
And felt thee present in the flame. 
And shouted our Deliverer's name. 

3 Thou who hast kept us to this hour, 
keep us faithful to the end ! 

When, robed in majesty and power. 

Our Jesus shall from heaven descend, 
His friends and witnesses to o^vn, 
And seat us cm his glorious throne. 



528 REJOICING IN 

889 L. M. 

God, my glory and my shield 

THE tempter to my soul hath said, — 
There is no help in God for thee : 
Lord, lift thou up thy servant's head ; 

My glory, shield, and solace be. 
2 Thus to the Lord I raised my cry ; — 

He heard me from his holy hill; 
At his command the waves roll'd by; 

He beckon' d, — and the winds were still. 
8 I laid me down and slept, — I woke ; 

Thou, Lord, my spirit didst sustain ; 
Bright from the east the morning broke, — 

Thy comforts rose on me again. 
4 I will not fear, though armed throngs 

SmTOimd my steps in all their wrath ; 
Salvation to the Lord belongs ; 

His presence guards his people's path. 

890 L. M. 

His everlasting arms of love. 

HOW do thy mercies close me round! 
Forever be thy Name adored ; 

1 blush in all things to abound ; 
The servant is above his Lord. 

2 Inured to poverty and pain, 

A suff'ring life my Master led; 
The Son of God, the Son of man. 
He had not where to lay his head. 

3 But lo ! a place he hath prepared 
For me, whom watchful angels keep ; 

Yea, he himself becomes my guard ; 

He smooths my bed, and gives me sleep. 

4 Jesus protects ; my fears, begone : 
What can the Rock of Ages move ? 

Safe in thy arms I lay me down,— ^ 
Thine everlasting arms of love. 



DELIVERANCE FROM TROUBLE. 529 

891 . L. M. 

Continued. — Conjldent security. 

VHILE thou art intimately nigh. 
Who, who shall violate my rest? 
Sin, earth, and hell, I now defy: 
I lean upon my Saviour's breast. 

2 I rest beneath the' Almighty's shade, 
My griefs expire, my troubles cease ; 

Thou, Lord, on whom my soul is stay'd, 
Wilt keep me still in perfect peace. 

3 Me for thine own thou lov'st to take. 
In time and in eternity; 

Thou never, never wilt forsake 

A helpless worm that trusts in thee. 

892 s. M. 

Steadfast reliance upon the promises. 

AWAY, my needless feai*s, 
And doubts, no longer mine ; 
A ray of heavenly light appears, — 
A messenger divine. 

2 Thrice comfortable hope. 

That calms my troubled breast ; 
My Father's hand prepares the cup, 
And what he wills is best. 

3 If what I wish is good. 
And suits the will divine, — 

By earth and hell in vain withstood, 
I know it shall be mine. 

4 Still let them coimsel take 
To frustrate his decree ; 

Tliey cannot keep a blessing back. 

By Heaven design'd for me. 
6 Here then I doubt no moi*e, 

But in his pleasure rest; 
Whose wisdom, love, and truth, and power, 

Engage to make me blest. 

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5B0 REJOICING IN 

893 c. M. 

Grateful 'praise for delivering mercy, 
THOU, who, when we did complain, 
Didst all our griefs remove ; 
O Saviour, do not now disdain 
Our humble praise and love. 

2 Since thou a pitying ear didst give, 
And hear us when we pray'd, 

We '11 call upon thee while we live. 
And never doubt thy aid. 

3 Pale death, with all his ghastly train, 
Our souls encompass'd round ; 

Anguish, and fear, and dread, and pain. 
On every side we found. 

4 To thee, Lord of life, we pray'd. 
And did for succour flee : 

save, — in our distress we said, — 
The souls that trust in thee. 

5 How good thou art ! how large thy grace 
How ready to forgive ! 

Thy mercies crown our fleeting days ; 
And by thy love we live. 

6 Our eyes no longer drown'd in tears. 
Our feet from falling free ; 

Redeemed from death and guilty fears, 
Lord, we'll live to thee. 

894 ... S-M. 

All things in Christ 

THOU very-present aid 
In suff* 'ring and distress ; 
The mind which still on thee is stay'd, 

Is kept in perfect peace. 
2 The soul by faith reclined 
On the Redeemer's breast, 
'Mid raging storms, exults to find 
An everlasting rest. 



I/ELIVERANCE FROM TROUBLE. 531 

3 Sorrow and fear are gone, 
Whene'er thy face appears ; 

It stills the sighing orphan's mx)an, 
And dries the widow's tears. 

4 It hallows every cross ; 
It sweetly comforts me; 

Makes me forget my every loss, 
And find my all in thee. 

5 Jesus, to whom I fly. 
Doth all my wishes fill; 

What though created streams are dry ? 
I have the fountain still. 

6 Stripp'd of each earthly friend, 
I find them all in one : 

And peace and joy which never end, 
And heaven, in Christ, begun. 

895 S.M. 

Afflictions blessed. 

HOW tender is thy hand, 
thou most gracious Lord! 
Afflictions came at thy command. 
And left us at thy word. 

2 How gentle was the rod 
That chasten'd us for sin! 

How soon we found a smiling God 
Where deep distress had been 1 

3 A Father's hand we felt, 
A Father's love we knew: 

'Mid tears of penitence we knelt. 
And found his promise true. 

4 Now will we bless the Lord, 
And in his strength confide : 

Jehovah ever be adored. 
There is no God beside. 



532 REJOICING. 

896 c. M. 

The henejit of affliction. 

LORD, when to thee my sinking soul 
Did in affliction fly; 
Thy mercy did my griefs control. 
And all my wants supply. 

2 How oft, when dark misfortune's band 
Around their victim stood. 

The seeming ill, at thy command, 
Hath changed to real good! 

3 The tempest that obscm-ed the sky 
Hath set my spirit free 

From earthly care and sensual joy, 
And turn'd my thoughts to thee. 

4 Affliction's blast hath made me learn 
To feel for others' wo ; 

And humbly seek, with deep concern, 
My own defects to know. 

5 Then rage, ye storms; ye billows, roar; 
My heart defies your shock : 

Ye make me cling to God the more, — 
To God, my shelt'ring rock. 

897 . . CM. 

Delivering grace celebrated. 

LORD, thou hast heard thy servants cry, 
And rescued from the grave; 
Now shall we live — for none can die 
Whom God dehghts to save. 

2 Thy praise, more constant than before. 
Shall fill our daily breath ; 

Thy hand, that hath chastised us sore, 
Defends us still from death. 

3 Here, with the' assembly of thy saints. 
Our cheerful voice we raise ; 

Here we have told thee our complaints, 
And here we speak thy praise. 



REJOICING: 

IN 

COMMUNION WITH GOD. 

898 c. M. 

Praises to the incarnate So7t. 

OF OR a thousand seraph tongues 
To bless the' incarnate Word ! 
for a thousand thankful songs 
In honour of my Lord ! 

2 Come, tune afresh your golden lyres. 
Ye angels round the throne ; 

Ye saints, in all your sacred choirs, 
Adore the' eternal Son. 

890 3d P. M. 4 6s & 2 8s. 

Bejoice evermore^ and in everything give thanks. 

REJOICE, the Lord is King ; 
Yom' Lord and King adore ; 
Mortals, give thanks and sing. 
And triumph evermore ; 
Lift up your hearts, lift up your voice; 
Rejoice, again I say, rejoice. 

2 Jesus, the Sa\iour, reigns. 
The God of truth and love ; 

When he had purged our stains. 
He took his seat above ; 
Lift up your hearts, lift up your voice, 
Rejoice, again I say, rejoice. 

3 His kingdom cannot fail, — 

He rules o'er earth and heaven. 
The keys of death and hell 

Are to our Jesus given; 
Lift up your hearts, lift up your voice ; 
Rejoice, again I say, rejoice. 



534 REJOICING IN 

4 He sits at God's right hand 
Till all his foes submit, 

And bow to his command, 
And fall beneath his feet; 
Lift up your hearts, Hft up your voice ; 
Rejoice, again I say, rejoice. 

5 He all his foes shall quell, 
And all our sins destroy ; 

Let every bosom swell 
With pure seraphic joy ; 
Lift up your hearts, lift up your voice; 
Rejoice, again I say, rejoice. 

6 Rejoice in glorious hope, 
Jesus the Judge shall come, 

And take his servants up 
To theu* eternal home ; 
We soon shall hear the' archangel's voice ; 
The trump of God shall sound, — Rejoice ! 

900 S. M. 

Glory begun below. 

COME, ye that love the Lord, 
And let your joys be known ; 
Join in a song with sweet accord. 
While ye suiTOund his throne. 
Let those refuse to sing 

Who never knew our God, 
But servants of the heavenly King 
May speak their joys abroad. 

2 The God that rules on high, 

That all the earth surveys, 
That rides upon the stormy sky, 

And calms the roaring seas; 
This awful God is ours, 

Our Father and our Love ; 
He will send down his heavenly powCTS, 

To carry us above. 



COMMUNION WITH GOD. 535 

8 lliere we shall see his face, 

And never, never sin ; 
There, from the rivers of his grace, 

Drink endless pleasures in : 
Yea, and before we rise 

To that immortal state, 
The thoughts of such amazing bliss 

Should constant joys create. 

4 The men of grace have found 

Glory begun below : 
Celestial fruit on earthly ground 

From faith and hope may grow: 
Then let om* songs abound. 

And every tear be dry: 
We 're marching through Immanuel's ground, 

To fairer \vu;lds on high. 

901 9th P. M. 87,87,87,87. 

Hitherto hath the Lord helped us, 

COME, thou Fount of every blessing, 
Tune my heart to sing thy grace : 
Streams of mercy, never ceasing, 

Call for songs of loudest praise. 
Teach me some melodious sonnet, 

Sung by flaming tongues above : 
Praise the mount — I'm fix'd upon it; 
Mount of thy redeeming love ! 

2 Here I'll raise mine Ebenezer; 

Hither by thy help I'm come; 
And I hope, by thy good pleasure. 

Safely to arrive at home. 
Jesus sought me when a stranger, 

Wand 'ling from the fold of God ; 
He, to rescue me from danger, 

Interposed his precious blood. 



536 REJOICING IN 

Tj ! to grace how great a debtor 

Daily I'm constrain'd to be ! 
Let thy goodness, Hke a fetter, 

Bind my wandering heart to thee . 
Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it — 

Prone to leave the God I love ; 
Here's my heart, take and seal it ; 

Seal it for thy courts above. 

902 c. M. 

Walki7ig with God. 

TALK with us, Lord, thyself reveal, 
While here o'er earth we rove; 
Speak to our hearts, and let us feel 
The kindling of thy love. 

2 With thee conversing, we forget 
All time, and toil, and care : 

Labour is rest, and pain is sweet. 
If thou, my God, art here. 

3 Here then, my God, vouchsafe to stay, 
And bid my heart rejoice; 

My bounding heart shall own thy sway, 
And echo to thy voice. 

4 Thou callest me to seek thy face ; — 
'Tis all I wish to seek ; 

To' attend the whispers of thy grace, 
And hear thee inly speak. 

5 Let tliis my every hour employ. 
Till I thy glory see ; 

Enter into my Master's joy, 
And find my heaven in thee. 

903 . c. M. 

IWiumphant joy. 

MY God, the spring of all my joys. 
The life of my delights. 
The glory of my brightest days. 
And comfort of my nights : — 



COMMUNION WITH GOD. 537 

2 In darkest shades, if thou appear, 
My dawning is begun; 

Thou art my soul's bright morning star, 
And thou my rising sun. 

3 The opening heavens around me shine 
With beams of sacred bhss, 

If Jesus shows his mercy mine, 
And whispers I am his. 

4 My soul would leave this heavy clay 
At that transporting word, 

Run up w^ith joy the shining way. 
To see and praise my Lord. 

5 Fearless of hell and ghastly death, 
I'd break through every foe ; 

The wings of love and arms of faith 
Would bear me conqu'ror through. 

004 . s. M. 

Creating and redeeming love. 

FATHER, in whom we live, 
In whom we are, and move, 
The glory, power, and praise receive 
Ot thy creating love. 

2 Let all the angel throng 
Give thanks to God on high, 

WhDe earth repeats the joyful song, 
And echoes through the sky. 

3 Incarnate Deity, 

Let all the ransom'd race 
Render in thanks their lives to thee, 
For thy redeeming grace. 

4 The grace to sinners show'd, 
Ye heavenly choirs proclaim, 

\nd cry, — Salvation to our God, 
Salvation to the Lamb ! 



538 REJOICING IN 

905 . ^ . s. M. 

(^ontiniced. — Unspeakable joif 

SPIRIT of hoUness, 
Let all thy saints adore 
Thy sacred energy, and bless 

Thy heart-renewing power. 
2 Not ano-el tono-ues can tell 

Thy love's ecstatic height, — 
The glorious joy unspeakable, 

The beatific sight. 
S Eternal Triune Lord ! 

Let all the hosts above, 
Let all the sons of men record, 

And dwell upon, thy love : 
4 When heaven and eaith are fled 

Before thy o-h^rious face, 
Sing, all the sain.s thy love hath made, 

Thine everlasting praise ! 

906 c. M. 

Praise, — delightful. 

MY Saviour, my almighty Friend, 
When I begin thy praise, 
Where will the o-iowino- numbers end, — 
The numbers of thy grace? 

2 I trust in thy eternal word ; 
Thy goodness I adore : 

Send down thy grace, blessed Lord, 
That I may love thee more. 

3 My feet shall travel all the length 
Of the celestial road ; 

And march, with courage in thy strength, 
To see the Lord my God. 

4 A wake ! awake ! my tuneful powers. 
With this delio-juful soncr • 

And entertain the darkest hours, 
Nor think the season long. 



COMMUNION WITH GOO. 539 

907 10th p. M. 8 linet 8s. 

All-sufficiency of Jesus. 

HOW tedious and tasteless the hours 
When Jesus no longer I see ! 
Sweet prospects, sweet birds, and sweet flowers. 

Have all lost their sweetness to me ; — 
The midsummer sun shines but dim. 

The fields strive in vain to look gay ; 
But when I am happy in Him, 
December 's as pleasant as May. 

2 His Name yields the richest perfume, 
And sweeter than music his voice; 

His presence disperses my gloom. 
And makes all within me rejoice; 

I should, were he always thus nigh, 
Have nothing to wish or to fear ; 

No mortal so happy as I, — 

My summer would last all the year. 

3 Content with beholding his face. 
My all to his pleasure resign'd, 

No changes of season or place 

Would make any change in my mind: 

While blest with a sense of his love, 
A palace a toy would appear ; 

And prisons would palaces prove, 
If Jesus would dwell with me there. 

4 My Lord, if indeed I am thine, 
If thou art my sun and my song, 

Say, why do I languish and pine? 

And why are my winters so long ? 
drive these dark clouds from my sky; 

Thy soul-cheering presence restore ; 
Or take me to thee up on high. 

Where winter and clouds are no more. 



540 RKJOICING IN 

908 CM. 

God my all-sufficient portion. 

MY God, ray portion, and my love, 
My everlasting All, 
I've none but thee in heaven above, 
Or on this earthly ball. 

2 What empty things are all the skies. 
And this inferior clod ! 

There 's nothing here deserves my joys, 
There 's nothing like my God. 

3 To thee I owe my wealth, and friends. 
And health, and safe abode: 

Thanks to thy Name for meaner tilings ; 
But they are not my God. 

4 How vain a toy is giitt'ring wealth, 
If once compared to thee ; 

Or what's my safety, or my health, 
Or all my friends to me? 

5 Were I possessor of the earth. 
And call'd the stars my OAvn, 

Without thy graces and thyself, 
I were a wretch undone. 

6 Let others stretch their arms hke seas, 
And grasp in all the shore ; 

Grant me the visits of thy grace, 
And I desire no more. 

909 s. M 

Heaven upon earth, 

MY God, my life, my love, 
To thee, to thee I call: 

1 cannot Uve if thou remove. 
For thou art all in all. 

2 Thy shining grace cao cheer 
This dungeon where I dwell: 

'Tis paradise when thou art here ; 
If thou depart, 'tis hell. 



COMMUNION WITH GOD. 541 

^ The smilings of thy face, 

How amiable they are ! 
'Tis heaven to rest in thine embrace, 

And nowliere else but there. 

4 To thee, and thee alone. 
The angels owe their bhss ; 

They sit around thy gracious throne. 
And dwell where Jesus is. 

5 Not all the harps above 
Can make a heavenly place. 

If God his residence remove, 
Or but conceal his face. 

6 Nor earth, nor all the sky. 
Can one delight afford. 

Nor yield one drop of real joy, 
Without thy presence. Lord. 

7 Thou art the sea of love, 
Where all my pleasm*es roll : 

The circle where my passions move. 
And centi'e of my soul. 

910 0. M. 

The rapture of love. 

OTIS delight without alloy, 
Jesus, to hear thy name : 
My spirit leaps with inward joy; 
I feel the sacred flame. 

2 My passions hold a pleasing reign, 
When love inspires my breast, — 

Love, the divinest of the train. 
The sov'reicrn of the rest. 

o 

3 This is the grace must live and sing. 
When faith and hope shall cease, 

And sound from every joyful string 
Through all the realms of bliss. 



542 REJOICING m 

4 Swift I ascend the heavenly place. 
And hasten to my home ; 

1 leap to meet thy kind embrace ; 
I come, Lord, I come. 

5 Sink down, ye separating liills ; 
Let sin and death remove ; 

'Tis love that drives my chariot wheels, 
And death must yield to love. 

911 4th P. M. 886, 886, 

Always rejoichtg. 

HOW happy, gracious Lord ! are we, 
Divinely drawn to follow thee. 
Whose hours divided are 
Betwixt the mount and multitude : 
Our day is spent in doing good, 
Our night in praise and prayer. 

2 With us no melancholy void, 
No moment lingers unemploy'd, 

Or unimproved, below : 
Our weariness of life is gone. 
Who hve to serve our God alone. 

And only thee to know. 

3 The winter's night, and summer's day. 
Glide imperceptibly away, — 

Too short to sing thy praise ; 
Too few we find the happy hours. 
And haste to join those heavenly powers 

In everlasting lays. 

4 With all who chant thy name on high. 
And, Holy, holy, holy, cry, 

(A bright, harmonious throng !) 
We long thy praises to repeat, 
And ceaseless sing around thy seat 

The new eternal song. 



COMMUNION WITH GOD. . 543 

912 S- M. 

" Stand up, and bless the Lord forever^ 

THOU, Lord, art God alone : 
Those countless worlds of thine, 
Those heavens and heavenly sphits, own 
Thy majesty divine. 

2 Earth is thy footstool made, 
Great universal Lord ; 

And all tilings are in being stayM 
By thy preserving word. 

3 At thy command we rise, 
Thy gracious Name to bless ; 

And thee, the Lord of earth and skies. 
We joyfully confess. 

4 Our joy, to sing of thee ; 
To triumph in thy love ; 

And this, transporting thought, shall be 
Om' endless work above. 

913 s. M. 

Delight in God. 

LORD ! I delight in thee, 
And on thy care depend ; 
To thee in eveiy trouble flee, 
My best, my only Fiiend. 

2 When nature's streams are dried. 
Thy fulness is the same ; 

With this will I be satisfied, 
And glory in thy Name. 

3 Who made my heaven secure, 
Will here all good pro^dde : 

While Christ is rich, can I be poor? 
What can I want beside ? 

4 I cast my care on thee ! 
I triumph and adore : 

Henceforth my great concern shall be 
To love and please thee more. 



544 • REJOICING IN 

914 8tli P. M. 87, 87, 47. 

Hallelujah. 

OTHOU God of my salvation. 
My Redeemer from all sin ; 
Moved by thy dmne compassion, 
Who hast died my heart to win, 

I will praise thee : 
Where shall I thy praise begin? 

2 Though unseen, I love the Sasiour; 
He hath brought salvation near ; 

Manifests his pard'ning favour; 
And when Jesus doth appear, 

Soul and body 
Shall his o-lorious imao-e bear. 

3 While the angel choirs are crying, — 
Glory to the great I AM, 

I with them will still be vying — 
Glory ! glory to the Lamb ! 

how precious 
Is the sound of Jesus' name ! 

4 Angels now are hov'i-ing round us, 
Unperceived amid the thi'ong ; 

Wond'ring at the love that ci'own'd us, 
Glad to join the holy song : 

Hallelujah, 
Love and praise to Christ belong ! 

915 21st P. M. m, 84, m., 84. 
Triumphant trust in God, 

MY Shepherd's mighty aid, 
His dear redeeming love, 
His all-protecting power display'd, 

I joy to prove. 
Led. on ward by my guide, 

I view the verdant scene, 
Where limpid waters gently glide 
Through pastures green. 



COMMUNION WITH GOD. 545 

2 In error's maze my soul 
Shall wander now no more ; 

His Spirit shall, with sweet control, 

The lost restore : 
My willing steps shall lead 

In paths of righteousness ; 
His power defend ; his boimty feed ; 

His mercy bless. 

3 Affiction's deepest gloom 
Shall but his love display ; 

He will the vale of death illume 

With Uving ray. 
My failing flesh his rod 

Shall thankfully adore ; 
My heart shall vindicate my God 

For evermore. 

4 His goodness ever nigh, 
His mercy ever free. 

Shall while I live, shall when I die. 

Still follow me. 
Forever shall my soul 

His boundless blessings prove; 
And while eternal ages roll, 

Adore and love. 



916 10th P. M. 8 lines 8s. 

Longing for still closer communion, 

THOU Shepherd of Israel, and mine, 
The joy and desire of my heart, 
For closer communion I pine ; 

I long to reside where thou art: 
The pasture I languish to find, 

Where all, who their Shepherd obey. 
Are fed, on thy bosom reclined. 

And screened from the heat of the day. 

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546 KEJOICING IN 

2 'Tis there, with the lambs of thy flock. 

There only, I covet to rest ; 
To lie at the foot of the rock, 

Or rise to be hid in thy breast : 
'Tis.there I would always abide. 

And never a moment depart, — 
Concealed in the cleft of thy sicje, 

Eternally held in thy heart. 

917 1st P. M. 6 Urns 8s. 

Jesus all and in all, 

THOU hidden Source of calm repose. 
Thou all-sufficient Love divine, 
My help and refuge from my foes. 

Secure I am while thou art mine : 
And lo ! from sin, and grief, and sham«, 

1 hide me, Jesus, in thy name. 

2 Thy mighty name salvation is, 
And keeps my happy soul above : 

Comfort it brings, and power, and peace. 

And joy, and everlasting love : 
To me, with thy great name, are given 
Pardon, and hoUness, and heaven. 

3 Jesus, my all in all thou art; 
My rest in toil, my ease in pain ; 

The med'cine of my broken heart ; 

In war, my peace ; in loss, my gain ; 
My smile beneath the tyrant's frown; 
In shame, my glory and my crown : 

4 In want, my plentiful supply ; 

In weakness, my almighty power ; 
In bonds, my perfect liberty ; 

My light, in Satan's darkest hour ; 
In grief, my joy unspeaka-ble ; 
My life in death, my all in all. 



COMMUNION WITH GOD. 547 

918 L. M. 

My heart is fixed; Godj my heart is fixed, 

MY heart is fix'd on thee, my God , 
I rest my hope on thee alone ; 
I'll spread thy sacred truths abroad, — 
To all mankind thy love make known. 

2 Awake, my tongue ; awake, my lyre ; 
With morning's earUest dawn arise : 

To songs of joy my soul inspire, 
And swell your music to the skies. 

3 With those who in thy grace abound. 
To thee I'll raise my thankful voice ; 

Till every land, the earth around. 
Shall hear, and in thy Name rejoice. 

4 Eternal God, celestial King, 
Exalted be thy glorious Name ; 

Let hosts in heaven thy praises sing. 
And saints on earth thy love proclaim. 

919 c. M. 

Ceaseless praise. 

THE glorious armies of the sky 
To thee, almighty King, 
Triumphant anthems consecrate. 
And hallelujahs sing. 

2 But still their most exalted flights 
Fall vastly short of thee ; 

How distant then must human praise 
From thy perfections be. 

3 Yet how, my God, shall I refram. 
When, to my ravish'd sense. 

Each creature everywhere around 
Displays thy excellence ? 

4 Thy num'rous works exalt thee. Lord, 
Nor will I silent be ; 

O rather let me cease to breathe. 
Than cease from praising thee. 



548 REJOICING US" 

920 25th p. M. 77, 87, 77, 87. 
Joining tlie angelic hosts in pratjes. 

JESUS, take all the glory : 
Thy meritorious passion 
The pardon bought, thy mercy brought 

To us the great salvation. 
Thee gladly we acknowledge 

Our only Lord and Saviour, 
Thy name confess, thy goodness bless, 

And triumph in thy favour. 
2 With angels and archangels, 

We prostrate fall before thee ; 
Again we raise our souls in praise. 

And thankfully adore thee. 
Honour, and power, and blessing. 

To thee be ever given. 
By all who know thy love below, 

And all the hosts of heaven. 

921 CM. 

Perpetual praise. 

r:S, I will bless thee, my God, 
Through all my fleeting days; 
And to eternity prolong 

Thy vast, thy boundless praise. 

2 N'or shall my tongue alone proclaim 
The honours of my God ; 

My life, with all its active powers. 
Shall spread thy praise abroad. 

3 Nor will I cease thy praise to sing, 
When death shall close mine eyes; 

My thoughts shall then to nobler heights. 
And sweeter raptures rise. 

4 Then shall my hps, in endless praise, 
Their grateful tribute pay ; 

The theme demands an angel's tongue. 
And an eternal day. 



COMMUNION WITH GOD. 549 

922 16th P. M. 11 12,1112. 

The foretaste of endless bliss. 

MY God, I am thine; what a comfort divine, 
What a blessmg, to know that my Jesns is 
mine ! 
In the heavenly Lamb, thrice happy I am; 
And my heart doth rejoice at the sound of his name. 

2 True pleasures abound in the rapturous sound. 
And whoever hath found it, hath paradise found ; 
My Redeemer to know, to feel his blood flow, 
This is life everlasting — 'tis heaven below. 

3 Yet onward I haste to the heavenly feast; 
That indeed is the fulness, but this is the taste ; 
And this I shall prove, till with joy I remove 
To the heaven of heavens in Jesus's love. 

923 2d P. M. 6 lines 8s. 

Everlasting praises. 

I'LL praise my Maker while I Ve breath, 
And when my voice is lost in death. 
Praise shall employ my nobler powers ; 
My days of praise shall ne'er be past. 
While life, and thought, and being last, 
Or immortahty endures. 

2 Happy the man whose hopes rely 
On Israel's God ; he made the sky. 

And earth, and seas, with all their train ; 
His truth forever stands secure ; 
He saves the' oppressed, he feeds the poor, 

And none shall find his promise vain. 

3 The Lord pours eyesight on the blind; 
The Lord supports the fainting mind; 

He sends the lab 'ring conscience peace; 
He helps the stranger in distress. 
The widow and the fatherless. 

And grants the pris'ner sweet release. 



550 REJoicmci. 

4 I '11 praise him while he lends me breath, 
And when my voice is lost in death, 

Praise shall employ my nobler powers; 
My days of praise shall ne'er be past, 
- While life, and thought, and being last. 

Or immortahty endures. 

924 L. M. 

God^s praises crown eternity. 

GOD of my life, through all my days 
My grateful powers shall sound thy praise ; 
My song shall wake with opening light. 
And cheer the dark and silent night. 

2 When anxious cares would break my rest, 
And griefs would tear my throbbing breast, 
Thy tuneful praises, raised on high. 

Shall check the murmur and the sigh. 

3 When death o'er nature shall prevml, 
And all the powers of language fail, 

Joy through my swimming eyes shall break. 
And mean the thanks I cannot speak. 

4 But 0, when that last conflict 's o'er, 
And I am chain'd to earth no more. 
With what glad accents shall I rise 
To join the music of the skies ! 

5 Soon shall I learn the' exalted strains 
Which echo through the heavenly plains ; 
And emulate, with joy unknown. 

The glowing seraphs round the throne. 

6 The cheerful tribute will I give. 
Long as a deathless soul shall live : 
A work so sweet, a theme so high. 
Demand? and crowns eternity. 



REJOICING: 

IN 

PROSPECT OF HEAVEN. 

925 4th p. M. 886,886. 

Bliss-inspiring hope, 

COME on, my partners in distress, 
My comrades through the wilderness, 
Who still your bodies feel : 
Awhile forget your griefs and fears. 
And look beyond this vale of tears, 
To that celestial hill. 

2 Beyond the bounds of time and space, 
Look forward to that heavenly place. 

The saints' secure abode; 
On faith's strong eagle pinions rise. 
And force your passage to the skies. 

And scale the mount of Gpod. 

S Who suffer with our Master here. 
We shall before his face appear, 

And by his side sit down; 
To patient faith the prize is sure; 
And all that to the end endure 

The cross, shall wear the crown. 

4 Thrice blessed, bHss-inspiring hope! 
It lifts the fainting spirits up ; 

It brings to life the dead : 
Our conflicts here shall soon be past. 
And you and I ascend at last. 

Triumphant with our Head. 

5 That great mysterious Deity, 
We soon with open face shall see ; 

The beatific sight 
Shall fill the heavenly courts with praise. 
And wide difiuse the golden blaze 

Of everlasting light. 



552 REJOICING IN 

926 c. M. 

The full assurance of hope, 

HOW happy every child of grace. 
Who knows his sins forgiven! 
This earth, he cries, is not my place; 

I seek my place in heaven: 
A comitry far from mortal sight. 

Yet, 0, by faith I see ; 
The land of rest, the saints' delight, — 
The heaven prepared for me. 

2 what a blessed hope is om-s ! 
While here on earth we stay. 

We more than taste the heavenly powere. 

And ante-date that day: 
We feel the resurrection near, — 

Om* life in Christ concealed, — 
And with his glorious presence here 

Our earthen vessels fill'd. 

3 would he more of heaven bestow ! 
And when the vessels break. 

Let our triumphant spirits go 
To grasp the God we seek ; 

In rapturous awe on Him to gaze. 
Who bought the sight for me ; 

And shout and wonder at his grace 
To all eternity. 

927 c. M. 

Continued. — Endless bliss in prospect 

A STRANGER in the world below, 
I calmly sojourn here ; 
Nor can its happiness or wo 
Provoke my hope or fear t 
Its evils in a moment end ; 

Its joys as soon are past : 
But 0, the bliss to which I tend 
Eternally shall last. 



PROSPECT OF HEAVEN. 553 

2 To that Jerusalem above. 

With singing I repair; 
While in the flesh, my hope and love. 

My heart and soul, are there. 
There my exalted Saviour stands. 

My merciful High Priest; 
And still extends his wounded hands. 

To take me to his breast. 

928 S. M. 

The goodly land, 

FAR from these scenes of night, 
Unbounded glories rise. 
And realms of joy and pure deUght, 
Unknown to mortal eyes. 

2 Fair land ! — could mortal eyes 
But half its charms explore. 

How would our spirits long to rise. 
And dwell on earth no more ! 

3 No cloud those regions know, — 
Realms ever bright and fair; 

For sin, the source of mortal wo. 
Can never enter there. 

4 may the prospect fire 
Our hearts with ardent love, 

Till wings of faith, and strong desire. 
Bear every thought above. 

5 Prepared, by grace divine, 
For thy bright courts on high. 

Lord, bid our spirits rise and join 
The chorus of the sky. 

929 CM. 

The kingdoms are but one, 

HAPPY the souls to Jesus join'd. 
And saved by grace alone; 
Walking in all his ways, they find 
Their heaven on earth begun. 



554 REJOICING m 

2 The church triumphant m thy love, 
Then- mighty joys we know : 

They sing the Lamb in hymns above, 
And we in hymns below. 

3 Thee in thy glorious realm they pr^e 
And bow before thy throne ; 

We in the kingdom of thy grace : 
The kingdoms are but one. 

4 The holy to the hohest leads, 
And thence our spirits rise ; 

For he that in thy statutes treads. 
Shall meet thee in the skies. 

930 c. M. 

The lieavenly Canaan. 

THERE is a land of pure delight. 
Where saints immortal reign; 
Infinite day excludes the night. 
And pleasures banish pain. 

2 There everlasting spring abides. 
And never- with'ring flowers : 

Death, hke a narrow sea, divides 
This heavenly land from ours. 

3 Sweet fields beyond the swelling flood 
Stand dress'd in Uving green ; 

So to the Jews old Canaan stood. 
While Jordan rolFd between. 

4 Could we but chmb where Moses stood, 
And view the landscape o'er. 

Not Jordan's stream, nor death's cold flood, 
Should fright us from the shore. 

931 c. M. 

The promised land. 

ON Jordan's stormy banks I stand, 
And cast a wishful eye 
To Canaan's fair and happy land. 
Where my possessions lie. 



PROSPECT OF HEAVEN. 555 

2 O the transporting, rapturous scene, 
That rises to my sight ! 

Sweet fields array'd in hving green, 
And rivers of delight. 

3 There generous fruits that never fail, 
On trees immortal grow; 

There rock, and hill, and brook, and vale. 
With milk and honey flow. 

4 O'er all those wide-extended plains 
Shines one eternal day; 

There God the Son forever reigns, 
And scatters night away. 

5 No chilling winds, or pois'nous breath. 
Can reach that healthful shore; 

Sickness and sorrow, pain and death. 
Are felt and fear'd no more. 

6 When shall I reach that happy place, 
Ajid be forever blest ? 

When shall I see my Father's face. 
And in his bosom rest? 

7 Fiird with dehght, my raptured soul 
Would here no longer stay: 

Though Jordan's waves around me roU, 
Fearless I 'd launch away. 

932 S. M. 

The pilgrim! s home, 

VHILE through this world we roam. 
From infancy to age. 
Heaven is the Christian pilgrim's home. 
His rest at every stage. 

2 Thither his soul ascends. 

Eternal joys to share ; 
There his adoring spirit bends. 

While here he kneels in prayer. 



556 REJOICING IN 

3 His freed affections rise, 
To fix on things above, 

Where all his hope of glory lies, — 
Where all is perfect love. 

4 There we our treasure place ; 
There let our hearts be found ; 

That still, where sin abounded, grace 
May more and more abound. 

5 Henceforth our converse be 
With Christ before the throne; 

Ere long we eye to eye shall see. 
And know as we are known. 

933 c. M. 

The saints in glory, 

GIVE me the wings of faith to rise 
Within the veil, and see 
The saints above, how great their joys, 
How bright their glories be. 

2 Once they were mourners here below, 
And pour'd out cries and tears ; 

They wrestled hard, as we do now. 
With sins, and doubts, and fears. 

3 I ask them whence their vict'ry came : 
They, with united breath, 

Ascribe their conquest to the Lamb, — 
Their triumph to his death. 

4 They mark'd the footsteps that he trod ; 
His zeal inspired their breast ; 

And, foU'wing their incarnate God, 
Possess the promised rest. 

5 Our glorious Leader claims our praise 
For his own pattern given ; 

While the long cloud of witnesses 
Show the same path to heaven. 



PROSPECT OF HEAVE]^. 557 

934 Yth P. M. 8 lines Vs. 
Partnership of the saints in light. 

JESUS is our common Lord; 
He om* loving Saviour is ; 
By his death to life restored, 

Misery we exchange for bliss ; — 
Bliss to carnal minds unknown; 

'tis more than tongue can tell ; 
Only to beUevers shown, — 
. Glorious and imspeakable. 

2 Christ, our Brother and our Friend, 

Shows us his eternal love : 
Never shall our triumphs end. 

Till we take our seats above. 
Let us walk with him in white ; 

For our bridal day prepare ; 
For our partnership in Ught, — 

For our glorious meeting there. 

935 nth P. M. 76, 76, 77, 76. 

The better portion. 

RISE, my soul, and stretch thy wings; 
Thy better portion trace ; 
Rise from transitory things, 

Tow'rd heaven, thy native place : 
Sun, and moon, and stars decay ; 

Time shall soon this earth remove ; 
Rise, my soul, and haste away 
To seats prepared above. 

2 Rivers to the ocean run,. 

Nor stay in all their course; 
Fire, ascending, seeks the sun; 

Both speed them to their source: 
So a soul that's bom of God, 

Pants to view his glorious face ; 
Upward tends to his abode. 

To rest in his embrace. 



558 REJOICING IN 

3 Cease, ye pilgrims, cease to mourn ; 

Press onward to the prize ; 
Soon our Saviour will return 

Triumphant in the skies : 
There we '11 join the heavenly train. 

Welcomed to partake the bhss; 
Fly from sorrow, care, and pain. 

To realms of endless peace. 

936 7thP. M. 8 lines 7s, 

Saints and a7igcls round the throne, 

LIFT your eyes of faith, and see 
Saints and angels join'd in one : 
What a countless company 

Stand before yon dazzling throne! 
Each before his Saviour stands. 
All in whitest robes array'd ; 
Palms they carry in their hands, 
Crowns of glory on their head. 

2 Saints, begin the endless song ; 
Ory aloud, in heavenly lays, — 

Glory doth to God belong ; 

God the glorious Saviour praise : 
All salvation from him came, — 

Him who reigns enthroned on high: 
Glory to the bleeding Lamb, — 

Let the morning stars reply. 

3 Angel powers the throne surround ; 
N'ext the saints in glory they ; 

Luird with the transporting sound. 
They their silent homage pay : 

Prostrate on their face, before 
God and his Messiah fall; 

Then in hymns of praise adore, — 
Shout the Lamb that died for all. 



PROSPECT OF HEAVEN. 559 

937 36th p. M. 86,886. 
The land of rest. 

THERE is an hour of peaceful rest, 
To mourning wand'rers given; 
There is a joy for souls distressed, 
A balm for every wounded breast, — 
'Tis found above in heaven. 

2 There is a home for weary souls 
By sin and sorrow driven. 

When toss'd on life's tempestuous shoals, 
Where storms arise and ocean rolls, 
And all is drear but heaven. 

3 There faith lifts up the tearless eye. 
To brighter prospects given; 

And views the tempest passing by, 
The evening shadows quickly fly, 
And all serene in heaven. 

4 There fragrant flowers immortal bloom, 
And joys supreme are given ; 

There rays divine disperse the gloom ; 
Beyond the confines of the tomb 
Appears the dawn of heaven. . 

938 15th P.M. 119,119. 
Eapturcnes anticipation. 

COME, let us ascend, 
My companion and friend, 
To a taste of the banquet above : 

If thy heart be as mine, 

If for Jesus it pine. 
Come up into the chariot of love. 

2 Who in Jesus confide, 

We are bold to outride 
The storms of affliction beneath , 

With the prophet we soar 

To the heavenly shore. 
And outfly all the arrows of death. 



560 REJOICING IN 

3 By faith we are come 
To our permanent home; 

By hope we the raptm-e unprove: 
By love we still rise. 
And look down on the skies. 

For the heaven of heavens is love. 

4 Who on earth can conceive 
How happy we hve, 

In the palace of God the great King : 

What a concert of praise, 

When om* Jesus's grace 
The whole heavenly company sing! 

5 What a raptm-ous song. 
When the glorified throng 

In the spirit of harmony join ! — 

Join all the glad choirs, 

Hearts, voices, and lyres, 
And the bm'den is, — Mercy divine ! 

6 Hallelujah, they cry. 
To the King of the sky, — 

To the great everlasting I AM ; 

To the Lamb that was slain. 

And that liveth again, — 
Hallelujah to God and the Lamb ! 

939 10th P. M. S lines Ss. 

The heavenly Jerusalem, 

AWAY with our sorrow and fear. 
We soon shall recover our home; 
The city of saints shall appear, — 

The day of eternity come. 
From earth we shall quickly remove, 

And mount to our native abode ; 
The house of our Father above, — 
The palace of angels and God. 



PROSPECT OF HEAVEN. 561 

2 Our mourning is all at an end, 
When, raised by the life-giving Wcwd, 

We see the new city descend, 
Adom'd as a bride for her Lord : 

The city so holy and clean, 

No sorrow can breathe in the air: 

No gloom of affiction or sin ; 
No shadow of evil is there. 

3 By faith we already behold 
That lovely Jerusalem here : 

Her walls are of jasper and gold ; 

As crystal her buildings are clear; 
Immovably founded in grace, 

She stands as she ever hath stood. 
And brightly her Builder displays, 

And flames with the glory of God. 

940 10th P. M. 8 lines Ss. 

Gmitinued. — There shall he no night tJiere, 

NO need of the sim in that day 
Which never is followed by night. 
Where Jesus's beauties display 

A pure and a permanent hght : 
The Lamb is their Light and their Sun, 

And, lo ! by reflection they shine ; 
With Jesus ineffably one. 

And bright in effulgence divine. 

2 The saints in his presence receive 

Then* great and eternal reward ; 
In Jesus, in heaven, they live, — 

They reign in the smUe of their Lord. 
The flame of angeUcal love 

Is kindled at Jesus's face ; 
And all the enjoyment above, 

Consists in the rapturous gaze. 
86 



562 REJOICING IN 

941 4th p. M. 886,886. 

The pilgrimh happy lot. 

HOW happy is the pilgrim's lot; 
How free from every anxious thought. 
From worldly hope and fear ! 
Confined to neither court nor cell. 
His soul disdains on earth to dwell. 
He only sojourns here. 

2 This happiness in part is mine. 
Already saved from low design. 

From every creature-love; 
Blest with the scorn of finite good. 
My soul is lighten'd of its load, 

And seeks the things above. 

3 There is my house and portion fair ; 
My treasure and my heart are there, 

And my abiding home ; 
For me my elder brethren stay. 
And angels beckon me away, 

And Jesus bids me come. 

4 I come, thy servant, Lord, replies; 

1 come to meet thee in the skies. 
And claim my heavenly rest ! 

Soon will the pilgrim's journey end ; 
Then, my Saviour, Brother, Friend, 
Receive me to thy breast ! 

942 . c. M. 

The goodly city in prospect 

JERUSALEM ! my happy home ! 
Name ever dear to me ! 
When shall my labours have an end, 
In joy, and peace in thee ? 

2 when, thou city of my God, 
Shall I thy courts ascend. 

Where congregations ne'er break up, 
And Sabbath has no end ? 



PROSPECT OF HEAVEK 563 

3 Why should I shrink at pain and wo*^ 
Or feel, at death, dismay ? 

1 Ve Canaan's goodly land in view. 

And realms of endless day. 

4 Apostles, martyrs, prophets there, 
Around my Saviour stand ; 

And soon my friends in Christ below 
Will join the glorious band. 

5 Jerusalem ! my happy home ! 
My soul still pants for thee ; 

Then shall my labours have an end. 
When I thy joys shall see. 

943 S. M. 

At Iwme in lieaven. 

FOREVER with the Lord ! 
Amen, so let it be ! 
Life from the dead is in that word, 
'Tis immortahty. 

2 Here in the body pent, 
Absent from Him I roam ; 

Yet nightly pitch my moving tent 
A day's march nearer home. 

3 Forever with the Lord ! 
Father, if 'tis thy will, 

The promise of that faithful word, 
E'en here to me fulfil. 

4 So when my latest breath 
Shall rend the veil in twain. 

By death I shall escape from death. 
And life eternal gain. 

5 Knowing as I am known. 
How shall I love that word, 

And oft repeat before the throne. 
Forever with the Lord ! 



564 REJOICING IN 

944 21st p. M. 66,84,66,84 

The God of Abraham ; my God. 

THE God of Abraham praise, 
Who reigns enthroned above : 
Ancient of everlasting days. 

And God of love : 
JEHOVAH, GREAT I AM ! 
By earth and heaven confessed ; 

1 bow and bless the sacred Name, 
Forever blest. 

2 The God of Abrah'm praise, 
At whose supreme command 

From earth I rise, and seek the joys 

At his right hand : 
I all on earth forsake. 

Its wisdom, fame, and power; 
And him my only portion make. 

My shield and tower. 

3 The God of Abrah'm praise, 
Whose all-sufficient grace 

Shall guide me all my happy days 

In all his ways ; 
He calls a worm his friend : 

He calls himself my God ! 
And he shall save me to the end, 

Through Jesus' blood. 

4 He by himself hath sworn :. 
I on his oath depend ; 

I shall, on eagles' wings upborne, 

To heaven ascend: 
I shall behold his face ; 

I shall his power adore, 
And sing the wonders of his grace 

For evermore. 



PROSPECT OF HEAVEN. 565 

945 21st P. M. 66, 84, 66, 84. 

Continued. — Pressing toward the mark. 

THOUGH nature's strength decay, 
And earth and hell withstand, 
To Canaan's bounds I urge my way, 

At His command; 
The wat'ry deep I pass, 

With Jesus in my view; 
And through the howling wilderness 
My way pursue. 

2 The goodly land I see, 
With peace and plenty blest ; 

A land of sacred liberty, 

And endless rest. 
There milk and honey flow. 

And oil and wine abound; 
And trees of life forever grow, 

With mercy crown'd. 

3 Tliere dwells the Lord our King, 
The Lord our Righteousness, 

Triumphant o'er the world and sin. 

The Prince of Peace ; 
On Zion's sacred height, 

His kinordom still maintains ; 
And, glorious, with his saints in light 

Forever reigns. 

4 He keeps Ins own secure ; 
He guards them by his side ; 

Arrays in garments white and pure 

His spotless bride ; 
Witli groves of living joys, 

With streams of sacred bliss, 
Witli all tlie fi-uits of paradise, 

He still supplies. 



566 REJOICING IN 

5 Before the great Three One 

They all exulting stand, 
And tell the wonders he hath done 

Through all their land : 
The listening spheres attend. 

And swell the growing fame ; 
And sing, in songs which never end. 

The wondrous Name. 

946 2 1st P. M. 66, 84, 66, 84, 

Continued, — Joining the heavenly choir. 

THE God who reigns on high 
The great archangels sing. 
And, Holy, holy, holy, cry, 

Almighty King! 
Who was and is the same. 
And evermore shall be ; 
Jehovah, Father, great I AM, 
We worship thee. 

2 Before the Saviour's face 
The ransom'd nations bow; 

O'erwhelm'd at his almighty grace, 

Forever new : 
He shows his prints of love, — 

They kindle to a flame ! 
And sound, through all the worlds abtfve; 

The slaughtered Lamb. 

3 The whole triumphant host 
Give thanks to God on high ; 

Hail, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, 

They ever cry : 
Hail, Abrah'm's God, and mine ! 

(I join the heavenly lays,) 
All might and majesty ai-e thine, 

And endless praise. 



PROSPECT OF HEAVED. 567 

947 L. M. 

The redeemed in heaven. 

LO ! round the throne, a glorious band, 
The saints in countless myriads stand; 
Of every tongue redeemed to God, 
Array'd in garments wash'd in blood. 

2 Through tribulation great they came ; 
They bore the cross, despised the shame ; 
But now from all their labours rest. 

In God's eternal glory blest. 

3 They see the Saviour face to face; 
They sing the triumph of his grace : 
And day and night, with ceaseless praise. 
To him their loud hosannas raise. 

4 0, may we tread the sacred road 
That holy saints and martyrs trod ; 
Wage to the end the glorious strife,. 
And win, like them, a crown of life. 

948 Vth P. M. Klines Is. 

Tlte spirits of the just made perfect, 

¥H0 are these array'd in white. 
Brighter than the noon-day sun? 
Foremost of the sons of Ught ; 
Nearest the eternal throne? 
These are they that bore the cross; 

Nobly for their Master stood ; 
SufF'rers in his righteous cause; 
FoR'wers of the dying God. 

2 Out of great distress they came : 

Washed their robes, by faith, below, 
In the blood of yonder Lamb,— 

Blood that washes white as snow; 
Tlierefore are they next the throne ; 

Serve their Maker day and night: 
God resides among his own, 

God doth in his saints delicrht. 



568 REJOICING IN 

949 27111 P M. 4 lines lis. 

I would not live alway 

I WOULD not live alway ; I ask not to stay 
Where storm after storm rises dark o'er the way ; 
The few lurid mornings that dawn on us here 
Are enough for life's joys, full enough for its cheer. 

2 I would not hve alway ; no — welcome the tomb ! 
Since Jesus hath lain there, I dread not its gloom : 
There sweet be my rest till he bid me arise, 

To hail him in triumph descending the skies. 

3 Who, who would live alway, away from his God — 
Away from yon heaven, that blissful abode, 
Where rivers of pleasure flow bright o'er the plains, 
And the noontide of glory eternally reigns ? 

4 There saints of all ages in harmony meet, 
Their Saviour and brethren transported to greet ; 
While anthems of rapture unceasingly roll, 

And the smile of the Lord is the feast of the soul. 

950 10th P. M. 8 lines S^. . 
Having a desire to depart. 

I LONG to behold Him array'd 
With glory and light from above; 
The Kjng in his beauty display'd, — 
His beauty of holiest love : 

1 languish and sigh to be there, 
Where Jesus hath fix'd his abode ; 

when shall we meet in the air. 
And fly to the mountain of God ! 

2 With him I on Zion siiall stand. 
For Jesus hath spoken the word ; 

The breadth of Immanuel's land 
Survey by the light of my Lord : 

But when, on thy bosom reclined. 
Thy face I am strengthen'd to see, 

My fulness of rapture I find, — 
My heaven of heavens in thee. 



PROSPECT OF HEAVEN. 569 

3 How happy the people that dwell 

Secure in the city above ! 
No pain the inhabitants feel, 

No sickness or sorrow shall prove. 
Physician of souls, unto me 

Forgiveness and holiness give; 
And then from the body set free. 

And then to the city receive. 

951 10th P. M. 8 lines 8s. 

—And to be vnth Christ, which is far better, 

OWHEN shall we sweetly remove, 
when shall we entei our rest, — 
Return to the Zion above. 

The mother of spirits distress'd ; — 
That city of God the great King, 

Where sorrow and death are no more, 
Where saints our Immanuel sing, 
And cherub and seraph adore? 

2 But ano'els themselves cannot tell 

o 

The joys of that hoUest place, 
Where Jesus is pleased to reveal 

The light of his heavenly face : 
When, cauglit in the rapturous flame, 

The sight beatific they prove; 
And walk in the light of the Lamb, 

Enjoying the beams of his love. 

3 Thou know'st in the spirit of prayer 
We long thy appearing to see. 

Resigned to the burden we bear. 
But longing to triumph with thee : 

'Tis good at thy word to be here ; 
'T'is better in thee to be gone. 

And see thee in glory appear, 

And rise to a sliare in thy tlirone v 



570 REJOICING IN 

952 S. M. 

A house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens, 

"YTTE know, by faith we know, 
VV If this vile house of clay. 
This tabernacle, sink below, 
In ruinous decay — 

2 We have a house above. 

Not made with mortal hands ; 
And firm as our Redeemer's love 
That heavenly fabric stands. 

3 It stands securely high, 
Indissolubly sure : 

Our glorious mansion in the sky 
Shall evermore endure. 

4 Full of immortal hope. 
We urge the restless strife. 

And hasten to be swallow'd up 
Of everlasting life. 

5 Lord, let us put on thee 
In perfect holiness. 

And rise prepared thy face to see, 
Thy bright, unclouded face. 

6 Thy grace with glory crown. 
Who hast the earnest given; 

And then triumphantly come down. 
And take us up to heaven. 

953 18th p. M. 10,5,11. 

Eternity near, 

COME, let us anew our journey pursue, 
With vigoui- arise, 
And press to our permanent place in the sLies. 
Of heavenly birth, tliough wand'ring on earth, 

This is not our place, 
But strangers and pilgrims ourselves we confess. 



PROSPECT OF HEAVEN. 571 

2 At Jesus's call, we gave up om* all , 

And still we forego, 
For Jesus's sake, our enjoyments below. 
No longing we find for the country behind ; 

But onward we move, 
And still we are seeking a country above: — 

3 A country of joy without any alloy ; 

We thither repair; 
Our hearts and our treasure already are there. 
We march hand in hand to Immanuel's land ; 

No matter what cheer 
We meet with on earth, for eternity 's here ! 

4 The rougher the way, the shorter our stay ; 

The tempests that rise 
Shall gloriously hurry our souls to the skies : 
The fiercer the blast, the sooner 'tis past; 

The troubles that come 
Shall come to our rescue, and hasten us home. 

954 . S. M. 

The joyful meeting. 

SAVIOUR of sinful men. 
Thy goodness we proclaim, 
Which brings us here to meet agam, 

And triumph in thy Name : 
Thy mighty Name hath been 

Our safeguard and our tower, — 
Hath saved us from the world and sin, 

And all the' accuser's power. 
2 Awhile in flesh disjoin'd. 

Our friends that went before 
We soon in Paradise shall find, 

And meet to part no more ; 
In yon thrice happy seat. 

Waiting for us they are; 
And thou shalt there a husband meet, 

And I a parent there 1 







572 REJOICESTG IN 

955 s. M. 

ContiniLed. — God shall wipe away all tear 9, 
WHAT a mighty change 
Shall Jesus' sufferers Imow, 
While o'er the happy plains they range, 

Incapable of wo ! 
No ill-requited love 

Shall there our spirits wound : 
No base ingratitude above, — 
No sin in heaven is found. 

2 There all our giiefs are spent : 
There all our sorrows end : 

We cannot there the fall lament 

Of a departed friend ; 
A brother dead to God, 

By sin, alas! undone: 
No father there, in passion loud, 

Cries, — 0, my son ! my son ! 

3 No slightest touch of pain, 
Nor sorrow's least alloy, 

Can violate our rest, or stain 

Our purity of joy : 
In that eternal day 

No clouds or tempests rise ; 
There gushing tears are wiped away 

Forever from our eyes. ^ 

956 ..... c. M. 

Communion with saints in heaven. 

COME, let us join our friends above, 
That have obtain'd the prize; 
And on the eagle wings of love 

To joys celestial rise. 
2 Let all the' saints terrestrial sing, 

With those to glory gone ; 
For all the servants of our King, 
In eartli and lieaven, are one. 



PROSPECT OF HEAVEN. 57B 

3 One family we dwell in Him, 
One chm-ch above, beneath, 

Though now di\aded by the stream. 
The narrow stream, of death. 

4 One army of the living God, 
To liis command we bow; 

Part of his host have cross'd the flood. 
And part are crossing now. 

5 Ten thousand to their endless home 
This solemn moment fly ; 

And we are to the margin come, 
And we expect to die. 

6 His militant embodied host. 
With wishful looks we stand. 

And long to see that happy coast. 
And reach the heavenly land. 

957 c. M. 

Continiied. — Full felicity. 

OUR old companions in distress 
We haste again to see, 
And eager long for our release. 
And full felicity. 

2 E'en now, by faith, we join our hands 
With tliose that went before ; 

And greet the blood-besprinkled bands 
On the eternal shore. 

3 Our spirits too shall quickly join. 
Like theu-s with glory crown'd. 

And shout to see our Captain's sign, 
To hear his trumpet sound. 

4 Lord Jesus, be our constant guide : 
And, when the word is given, 

Bid death's cold flood its waves divide, 
And land us safe in heaven. 



574 REJOICING. 

958 C. M. 

T1i€ prospect joyous, 

AND let this feeble body fail. 
And let it faint or die ; 
My soul shall quit the mournful vale. 

And soar to worlds on high: 
Shall join the disembodied saints. 

And find its long-sought rest, — 
That only bhss for which it pants. 
In the Redeemer's breast. 

2 In hope of that immortal crown 
I now the cross sustain, 

And gladly wander up and down. 
And snule at toil and pain : 

I suffer on my threescore years. 
Till my Deliv'rer come. 

And wipe away his servant's tears. 
And take his exile home. 

3 what hath Jesus bought for me ! 
Before my ravish'd eyes 

Rivers of life di\dne I see. 

And trees of Paradise : 
I see a world of spirits bright. 

Who taste the pleasures there ; 
They all are robed in spotless white. 

And conqu'ring palms they bear. 

4 what are all my suff 'rings here. 
If, Lord, thou count me meet 

With that enraptured host to' appear. 
And worship at thy feet ! 

Give joy or grief, give ease or pain. 
Take life or friends away. 

But let me find them all again 
Tn that eternal day. 



ERECTION 0} CHURCHES. 



LAYING A CORNER-STONE. 

959 c. M. 

The sure Foundation. 

BEHOLD the sure Foundation-stone 
Which God in Zion lays, 
To build our heavenly hopes upon. 
And his eternal praise. 

2 Chosen of God, to sinners dear. 
We now adore thy Name ; 

We trust our whole salvation here, 
Nor can we sufifer shame. 

3 The foolish builders, scribe and priest. 
Reject it with disdain ; 

Yet on this Rock the church shall rest. 
And envy rage in vain. 

4 What though the gates of hell withstood. 
Yet must this building rise ; 

'Tis thine own work, almighty God, 
And wondrous in our eyes. 

960 12th P. M. 76, 76, 78, 76. 

Tlie living Name, 

THOU, who hast in Zion laid 
The true Foundation-stone, 
And with those a cov'nant made 

Who build on that alone : 
Hear us. Architect divine ! 

Great Builder of thy church below ! 
Now upon thy servants shine. 

Who seek thy praise to show. 
2 Earth is thine ; her thousand hills 

Thy mighty hand sustains ; 
Heaven thy awful presence fills ; 

O'er all thy glory reigns : 



576 ERECTiojsr of churches. 

Yet the place of old prepared. 
By regal David's favour'd son, 

Thy pecuUar blessmg shared, 
And stood thy chosen throne. 

3 We, hke Jesse's son, would raise 
A temple to the Lord ; 

Sound throughout its courts his praise, 

His saving Name record ; 
Dedicate a house to Him 

Who once, in mortal weakness shrined, 
SoiTow'd, suffer'd, to redeem. 

To rescue, all mankind. 

4 Father, Son, and Spirit, send 
The consecrating flame ; 

Now in majesty descend ; 

Inscribe the living Name : 
That great Name by which we live, 

Now write on this accepted stone ; 
Us into thy hands receive ; 

Our temple make thy throne. 

961 L. M. 

Seeking a tabernacle. 

¥HEN to the exiled seer were given 
Those rapturous views of highest heaven, 
All glorious though the visions were. 
Yet he beheld no temple there. 

2 The new Jerusalem on high 
Hath one pervading sanctity ; 

No sin to mourn, no grief to mar, — 
God and the Lamb its temple are. 

3 But we, frail sojourners below, 
The pilgrim-heirs of guilt and wo. 
Must seek a tabernacle where 

Our scatter'd souls may blend in prayer. 



LAYING A CORNER-STOI^fi. 577 

4 Thou ! who o'er the cherubim 
Didst shine in glories veil'd and dim. 
With purer light our temple cheer, 
And dwell in unveil'd glory here. 

962 L- M. 

God^s guardian presence 

THIS stone to thee, in faith, we lay; 
This temple. Lord, to thee we raise; 
Thme eye be open night and day. 

To guard this house of prayer and praise, 

2 Within these walls let heavenly peace 
And holy love and concord dwell ; 

Here give the burden'd conscience ease, 
And here the woimded spirit heal. 

3 But will, indeed, Jehovah deign 
Here to abide, no transient guest? 

Here will our great Redeemer reign, 
And here the Holy Spirit rest? 

4 Ne'er let thy glory hence depart : 

Yet choose not, Lord, this shrine alone; 
Thy Spirit dwell in every heart, — 
In every bosom fix thy throne. 

963 5th P. M. 4 Zines 7». 

Jesus Christ the corner-stone. 

ON this stone, now laid with prayer. 
Let thy church rise, strong and fair; 
Ever, Lord, thy Name be known. 
Where we lay this corner-stone. 

2 Let thy holy Child, who came 
Man from error to reclaim, 

And for sinners to atone, 

Bless, with thee, this comer-stone. 

3 May thy Spirit here give rest 
To the heart by sin oppressed, 
And the seeds of truth be sown. 
Where we lay this coraer-stone. 

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578 EKECTION OK CHURCHES. 

4 Open wide, God, thy door. 
For the outcast and the poor, 
Who can call no house their own. 
Where we lay this comer-stone. 

5 By wise master-builders squared, 
Here be living stones prepared 
For the temple near thy throne ; — 
Jesus Christ its comer-stone. 



DEDICATION. 



964 3d P. M. 4 6s <fe 2 8s. 

Invoking God's presence and blessing. 

GREAT King of glory, come. 
And with thy favour crown 
This temple as thy home, — 
This people as thine own: 
Beneath this roof, deign to show 
How God can dwell with men below. 

2 Here may thine ears attend 
Our interceding cries. 

And grateful praise ascend, 
Like incense, to the skies : 
Here may thy soul- converting word 
With faith be preach'd, in faith be heard. 

3 Here may our unborn sons 
And daughters sound thy praise. 

And shine, hke polish'd stones. 
Through long-succeeding days : 
Here, Lord, display thy saving power. 
While temples stand and men adore. 

4 Here may the Ust'ning throng 
Receive thy truth in love : 

Here Christians join the song 
Of the redeemed above ; 
Till all, who humbly seek thy face. 
Rejoice in thy abounding grace. 



DEDICATION. 571) 

965 s. M. 

The honour and safety of a nation. 

GREAT is the Lord our God, 
And let his praise be great ; 
He makes his churches his abode, 
His most dehghtful seat. 

2 These temples of his grace, 
How beautiful they stand : — 

The honours of our native place, 
And bulwarks of our land. 

3 In Zion God is known, 
A refuge in distress; 

How bright has his salvation shone 
Through all her palaces ! 

4 In every new distress 
We '11 to his house repair ; 

We '11 think upon his wondrous graee, 
And seek deliv'rance there. 

966 5th P. M. 4 lines Vs. 

Prayer and praise. 

LORD of hosts ! to thee we raise 
Here a house of prayer and praise : 
Thou thy people's hearts prepare, 
Here to meet for praise and prayer. 

2 Let the Uving here be fed 

With thy word, the heavenly bread : 
Here, in hope of glory blest, 
May the dead be laid to rest. 

3 Here to thee a temple stand. 
While the sea shall gird the land : 
Here reveal thy mercy sui^e, 
While the sun and moon endure. 

4 Hallelujah! — earth and sky 
To the joyful soimd reply : 
Hallelujah ! hence ascend 

Prayer and praise till time shall end. 



580 ERECTION OF CHUUGHES. 

967 CM. 

A blessing supplicated. 

OGOD, though countless worlds of light 
Thy power and glory show, — 
Though round thy throne, above all height, 
Immortal seraphs glow, — 

2 Yet, Lord, where'er thy saints apart 
Are met for praise and prayer, — 

Wherever sighs a contrite heart, 
Thou, gracious God, art there. 

3 With grateful joy, thy children rear 
This temple. Lord, to thee ; 

Long may they sing thy praises here. 
And here thy beauty see. 

4 Here, Saviour, deign thy saints to meet ; 
With peace their hearts to fill ; 

And here, like Sharon's odours sweet, 
May grace divine distil. 

5 Here may thy truth fresh triumphs win; 
Eternal Spirit, here. 

In many a heart now dead in sin, 
A living temple rear. 

968 L. M. 

Jehovah's presence. 
IVTOT heaven's wide range of hallow'd space 
Di Jehovah's presence can confine ; 
Nor angels' claims restrain his grace, 
Whose glories through creation shine. 

2 It beam'd on Eden's guilty days. 

And traced redemption's wondrous plan ; 
From Calvary, in brightest rays. 
It glow'd to guide benighted man. 

3 Its sacred shrine it fixes there, 
Where two or three are met to raise 

Their holy hands in humble prayer. 
Or tune their hearts to grateful praise. 



DEDICATION. 581 

4 Be this, Lord, that honour'd place, — 
The house of God, the gate of heaven ; 

And may the fulness of thy grace 
To all who here shall meet be given. 

5 And hence, in spuit, may we soar 

To those bright courts where seraphs bend ; 
With awe Hke theirs, on earth adore. 
Till with their anthems ours shall blend 

1)G9 L. M. 

The tokens of His grace, 

AND will the great eternal God 
On earth establish his abode? 
And will he, from his radiant throne, 
Accept our temples for his own? 

2 These walls we to thy honour raise ; 
Long may they echo with thy praise : 
And thou, descending, fill the place 
With choicest tokens of thy grace. 

3 Here let the great Redeemer reign. 
With all the graces of his train ; 
Wliile power divine his word attends. 
To conquer foes, and cheer his friends. 

4 And in the great decisive day. 
When God the nations shall survey. 
May it before the world appear 
That crowds were bom to glory here. 

970 L. M. 

An humble offering to Jehovah. 

THE perfect world, by Adam trod. 
Was the first temple built by God ; 
His fiat laid the comer-stone ; 
He spake, and, lo ! the work was done. 
2 He hung its starry roof on high. 
The broad expanse of azure sky ; 
He spread its pavement, green and bright, 
And curtain'd it Avith morning light. 



582 ERECTION OF CHURCHES. 

3 The mountains in their places stood, 
The sea, the sky ; and all was good ; 
And when its first pure praises rang, 
The morning stars together sang. 

4 Lord, 'tis not ours to make the sea. 
And earth, and sky, a house for thee ; 
But in thy sight our offering stands. 
An humble temple, built with hands. 

971 9th P. M. 87,87,87,8'? 

For the dedication of a seamerCs Bethel. 

THOU, who on the whirlwind ridest. 
At whose word the thunder roars. 
Who in majesty presidest 

O'er the oceans and their shores ; 
From those shores, and from the ocean. 

We, the children of the sea. 
Come to ofi'er our devotion. 
And to give this house to thee. 

2 When, for business on great waters. 

We go down to sea in ships, 
And our weeping sons and daughters 
" Hang, at parting, on our lips ; 
This our Bethel shall remind us 

That Jehovah heareth prayer; 
And that those we leave behind us 

Are thy faithful church's care. 

3< When in port, each day that's holy 

To this house we '11 press in throngs ; 
When at sea, with sphit lowly, 

We '11 repeat its sacred songs. 
Outward bound, shall we, in sadness, 

Lose its flag behind the seas; 
Homeward bound, we '11 greet with gladness 

Its first floating on the breeze. 



MISSIONARY. 583 

4 Homeward bound ! — with deep emotion, 

We remember, Lord, that Ufe 
Is a voyage o'er an ocean 

Heaved by many a tempest's strife. 
Be thy statutes so engraven 

On our hearts and minds, that we, 
Anclioring in death's quiet haven, 

All may make our home with thee. 



MISSIONARY. 
J)72 L. M. ^ 

Souls perishing for lack of knowledge, 

SHEPHERD of souls, with pitying eye 
The thousands of our Israel see ; 
To thee in their behalf we cry, — 
Ourselves but newly found in thee. 

2 See where o'er desert wastes they err, 
And neither food nor feeder have, 

Nor fold, nor place of refuge near. 
For no man cares their souls to save. 

3 Thy people. Lord, are sold for naught, 
Nor know they their Redeemer nigh ; 

They perish, whom thyself hast bought ; 
Their souls for lack of knowledge die. 

4 The pit its mouth hath open'd wide. 
To swallow up its careless prey : 

Why should they die, when thou hast died— 
Hast di<^d to bear their sins away? 

t Why should the foe thy purchase seize? 

Remember, Lord, thy dying groans: 
The meed of all thy siiff 'rings these ; 

O claim them for thy ransom 'd ones ! 



584 MISSIONARY. 

973 26th P. M. 76, 76, 76, 76. 

The cry of the heathen, 

FROM Greenland's icy mountains, 
From India's coral strand ; 
Where Afric's smmy fountains 

Roll down their golden sand ; 
From many an ancient river, 
From many a palmy plain. 
They call us to deliver 

Their land from error's cham. 

2 What though the spicy breezes 
Blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle ; 

Though every prospect pleases. 

And only man is vile: 
In vain with lavish kindness 

The gifts of God are strown ; 
The heathen in his blindness 

Bows down to wood and stone. 

3 Shall we, whose souls are lighted 
With wisdom from on high. 

Shall we to men benighted 

The lamp of life deny ? 
Salvation! — salvation! 

The joyful sound proclaim. 
Till earth's remotest nation 

Has learn'd Messiah's name. 

4 Waft, waft, ye winds, his story, 
And you, ye waters, roll. 

Till, like a sea of glory. 

It spreads from pole to pole : 

Till o'er our ransom'd nature 
The Lamb for sinners slain, 

Redeemer, King, Creator, 
In bliss returns to reign. 



MISSIONARY. 585 

974 1st p. M. G lines 8s. 

T?ie ruined race, 

LET God, who comforts the distressed. 
Let Israel's Consolation, hear; 
Hear, Holy Ghost, our joint request, 
And show thyself the Comforter ; 
And swell the' unutterable groan. 
And breathe our wishes to the throne. 

2 We ^vi^estle for the ruin'd race ; 
By sin eternally undone. 

Unless thou magnify thy grace, 

And make thy richest mercy known, 
And make thy vanquished rebels find 
Pardon in Christ for all mankind. 

3 Father of everlasting love. 

To every soul thy Son reveal, 
Our guilt and sufferings to remove. 

Our deep, original wound to heal; 
And bid the fallen race arise. 
And turn our earth to paradise. 

975 L. M. 

The glorious predictions. 

THE Law and Prophets all foretold 
That Christ should die, and leave the grave ; 
Gather the world into his fold. 

The Church of Jews and Gentiles save. 

2 Yet, by the prince of darkness bound. 
The nations still are wrapt in night : 

They never heard the joyful sound ; 
They never saw the Gospel hght. 

3 Light of the world, again appear. 
In mildest majesty of grace, 

And bring the great salvation near, 
And claim our whole apostate race. 



586 MISSIONARY. 

976 LM. 

The latter day glory. 

BEHOLD, the heathen waits to know 
The joy the Gospel will bestow; 
The exiled captive to receive 
The freedom Jesus has to give. 

2 Come, let us, with a grateful heart, 
In this blest labour share a part; 
Our prayers and offerings gladly bring 
To aid the triumphs of our King. 

3 Our hearts exult in songs of praise, 
That we have seen these latter days, 
When our Redeemer shall be known, 
Where Satan long hath held his throne. 

4 Where'er Hs hand hath spread the skies, 
Sweet incense to his Name shall rise ; 
And slave and freeman, Greek and Jew, 
By sovereign grace be form'd anew. 

977 26th P. M. 1Q,1%,1Q,1^. 

Departing missionaries. 

ROLL on, thou mighty ocean ; 
And, as thy billows flow, 
Bear messengers of mercy 

To every land below. 
Arise, ye gales, and waft them 

Safe to the destined shore ; 
That man may sit in darkness, 

And death's black shade, no more. 
2 thou eternal Ruler, 

Who boldest in thine arm 
The tempests of the ocean. 

Protect them from all harm ! 
Thy presence. Lord, be with them, 

Wherever they may be ; 
Though far from us who love them, 

Still let them be with thee. 



MISSIONARY. 587 

978 c. M. 

Missionaries commended to God. 

FATHER of mercies, condescend 
To hear our fervent prayer, 
While these our brethren we commend 
To thy paternal care. 

2 Before them set an open door ; 
Their faithful labours bless ; 

On them thy Holy Spirit pour. 
And crown them with success. 

3 Endow them with a heavenly mind ; 
Supply their every need ; 

Make them in spirit meek, resigned. 
But bold in word and deed. 

4 In every tempting, trying hour, 
Uphold them by thy grace ; 

And guard them by thy mighty power. 
Till they shall end their race. 

5 Then, followed by a numerous train, 
Gathered from heathen lands, 

A crown of life may they obtain 
From their Redeemer's hands. 

979 L. M. 

T?i€ severed olive-branch. 

LORD, visit thy forsaken race ; 
Back to thy fold the wand'rers bring ; 
Teach them to seek thy sHghted grace. 
And hail in Christ then- promised King. 

2 That veil of darkness rend in twain, 
Which hides their Shiloh's glorious Hght ; 

That sever'd ohve-branch again 
Firm to its parent-stock unite. 

3 Hail, glorious day — expected long ! 
When Jew and Greek one prayer shall poiin 

With eager feet one temple throng, — 
With grateful praise one God adore. 



588 MISSIONARY. 

980 s. M. 

Hebrew missionaries. 

ALMIGHTY God of love, 
Set up the' attracting sign, 
And summon whom thou dost approve 
For messengers divine. 

2 From favoured Abraham's seed 
The new apostles choose. 

In isles and continents to spread 
The dead-reviving news. 

3 We know it shall be done ; 
'Tis God's almighty word ; 

All Israel shall the Saviour own, 

To their first state restored. 
4^ Send, then, thy servants forth 

To call the Hebrews home; 
From east and west, and south and north. 

Let all the wand'rers come. 
5 With Israel's myriads seal'd, 

Let all the nations meet ; 
And show the mystery fulfiU'd, 

The family complete. 

981 L. M. 

The restoration of Israel, 

ARISE, great God ! and let thy grace 
Shed its glad beams on Jacob's race ; 
Restore the long-lost, scattered band, 
And call them to their native land. 

2 Their misery let thy mercy heal ; 
Their trespass hide, their pardon seal ; 
God of Israel ! hear our prayer. 
And grant them still thy love to share. 

3 How long shall Jacob's offspring prove 
The sad suspension of thy love ? 

Lord, shaU thy wrath forever bum ? 
And will thy mercy ne'er return ? 



MISSIONARY. 589 

4 Thy quick'ning Spirit now impart. 
And wake to joy each grateful heart ; 
While Israel's rescued tribes in thee 
Their bUss and full salvation see. 

982 L.M. 

For the Jews and the fulness of the Gentiles. 

HEAD of the Church, whose Spirit fills 
And flows through every faithful soul. 
Unites in mystic love, and seals 

Them one, and sanctifies the whole : — 

2 Come, Lord, — ^thy glorious Spirit cries. 
And souls beneath the altar groan ; 

Come, Lord, — ^the Bride on earth replies. 
And perfect all our souls in one. 

3 Pour out the promised gift on all ; 
Answer the universal — Come ! 

The fulness of the Gentiles call, 

And take thine ancient people home. 

4 To thee let all the nations flow ; 
Let all obey the Gospel word ; 

Let all their bleeding Saviour know, 
Fiird with the glory of the Lord. 

6 0, for thy truth and mercy's sake. 
The purchase of thy passion claim ; 

Thine heritage, the Gentiles, take. 

And cause the world to know thy name. 

983 s. M. 

For the world's conversion. 

OGOD of sov'reign grace. 
We bow before thy throne ; 
And plead, for all the human race, 

The merits of thy Son. 
2 Spread through the earth, Lord, 

The knowledge of thy ways ; 

And let all lands, with joy, record 

The great Redeemer's praise. 



G' 



590 MISSIONARY. 

984 5th p. M. 4 lines Is. 
The banner of tJie cross. 

I 0, ye messengers of God ; 
Like the beams of morning, fly ; 
Take the wonder-working rod ; 
Wave the banner-cross on high. 

2 Go to many a tropic isle 
In the bosom of the deep, 

Where the skies forever smile, 
And the' oppressed forever weep. 

3 O'er the pagan's night of care 
Pom* the Uving light of heaven ; 

Chase away his wild despair ; 
Bid him hope to be forgiven. 

4 Where the golden gates of day 
Open on the palmy East, 

High the bleeding cross display ; 
Spread the Gospel's richest feast 

985 s. M. 

/ mil gather all nations. 

FATHER of boundless grace. 
Thou hast m part fulfill'd 
Thy promise made to Adam's race, 

In God incarnate seal'd. 
A few from every land 

At first to Salem came. 
And saw the wonders of thy hand, 

And saw the tongues of flame. 
2 Yet still we wait the end, — 

The coming of our Lord ; 
The full accomplishment attend 

Of thy prophetic word. 
Thy promise deeper Ues, 

In unexhausted grace ; 
And new-discovered worlds arise 

To sing their Saviour's praise. 



MISSIONARY. 591 

3 Beloved for Jesus' sake, 

By him redeem'd of old, 
All nations must come in, and make 

One undivided fold : 
While gathered in by thee, 

And perfected in one. 
They all at once thy glory see 

In thy co-equal Son. 

986 c. M. 

The earth renewed in righteousness. 

ALMIGHTY Spirit, now behold 
A world by sin destroyed: 
Creating Spirit, as of old, 
Move on the fonnless void. 

2 Give thou the word ; that heahng sound 
Shall quell the deadly stiife ; 

And earth again, hke Eden crown'd. 
Bring forth the tree of life. 

3 If sang the morning stars for joy. 
When nature rose to view, 

What strains will angel-harps employ, 
When thou shalt all renew ? 

4 And if the sons of God rejoice 
To hear a Saviour's name. 

How will the ransom'd raise their voice, 
To whom the Saviour came ? 

5 Lo, every kindred, every tribe. 
Assembling round the throne. 

The new creation shall ascribe 
To sovereign love alone. 

987 _ L. M. 

The Saviour's coming expected and prayed for. 

JESUS ! thy church, with longing eyes. 
For thine expected coming waits : 
When wiU the promised light arise. 
And glory beam on Zion's gates ? 



392 MISSIONARY 

2 E'en now, when tempests round us fall. 
And wintry clouds o'ercast the sky, 

Thy words with pleasure we recall. 
And deem that our redemption's nigh. 

3 ! come, and reign o'er every land ; 
Let Satan from his throne be hurl'd, — 

All nations bow to thy command. 
And grace revive a dying world. 

4 Teach us, in watchfulness and prayer. 
To wait for thine appointed hour ; 

And fit us, by thy grace, to share 

The triumphs of thy conqu'ring power. 

988 19th P. M. 664,6664. 

Let there he light. 

THOU, whose almighty word 
Chaos and darkness heard. 
And took their flight ; 
Hear us, we humbly pray, 
And where the Gospel day 
Sheds not its glorious ray, 
Let there be hght. 

2 Thou, who didst come to bring, 
On thy redeeming wing. 

Healing and sight, — 
Health to the sick in mind. 
Sight to the inly blind, — 
now, to all mankind, 

Let there be light. 

3 Spirit of truth and love, 
Life-giving, holy Dove, 

Speed forth thy flight ; 
Move on the waters' face. 
Bearing the lamp of grace ; 
And in earth's darkest place, 

Let there be light. 



MISSIONARY. 593 

989 s. M. 

The Redeemer's triumphant reign, 

OTHOU whom we adore, 
To bless our earth again, 
Assume thine own almighty power, 

And o'er the nations reign. 
The world's Desire and Hope, 
All power to thee is given; 
Now set the last great empire up. 
Eternal Lord of heaven. 

2 Where all thy laws are spum'd. 
Thy holy name profaned, 

And where the fuin'd world has moum'd. 
With blood of millions stain'd • 

Reveal the glorious scene; 
The heathen claim for thine ; 

And there the endless reign begin 
With majesty divine. 

3 A gracious Saviour, thou 
Wilt all thy creatures bless ; 

And every knee to thee shall bow. 

And every tongue confess. 
According to thy word, 

Now be thy grace reveal'd; 
And with the knowledge of the Lord, 

Let all the earth be fiU'd. 

990 . . L.M. 

Missionary meeting. 

ASSEMBLED at thy great command, 
Before thy face, dread Eang, we stand 
The voice that marshall'd every star. 
Has caird thy people from afar. 

2 We meet through distant lands to spreadl 
The truth for which the martyrs bled; 
Along the line^ — to either pole — 
The anthem of thy praise to roll. 

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594 MISSIONARY. 

3 Our prayers assist ; accept our praise ; 
Our hopes revive ; our courage raise ; 
Our counsels aid; — ^to each impart 

The single eye, the faithful heart. 

4 Forth with thy chosen heralds come ; 
Recall the wand'ring spirits home ; 
From Zion's mount send forth the soimd, 
To spread the spacious earth around. 

991 s. M. 

God's wondrous way among the heathen, 

TO bless thy chosen race. 
In mercy, Lord, incline; 
And cause the brightness of thy face 
On all thy saints to shine; — 

2 That so thy wondrous way 

May through the world be known; 
While distant lands their homage pay. 
And thy salvation own. 

3 Let all the nations join 
To celebrate thy fame ; 

And all the world, Lord, combine 
To praise thy glorious Name. 

992 . L. M. 

Light for those wlio sit in darkness, 

THOUGH now the nations sit beneath 
The darkness of o'erspreading death ; 
God win arise with light divine. 
On Zion's holy towers to shine. 

2 That light shall shine on distant lands. 
And wandering tribes, in joyful bands. 
Shall come, thy glory, Lord, to see. 
And in thy courts to worship thee. 

3 light of Zion, now arise ! 

Let the glad morning bless our eyes ; 
Ye nations, catch the kindling ray, 
And hail the splendours of the day. 



MISSIONARY. 595 

993 3d p. M. 46s ife 2 8s. 

One shall chase a thousand. 

SAYIOUR, we know thou art 
In every age the same : 
Now, Lord, in ours exert 

The virtue of thy Name, 
And daily, through thy word, increase 
Thy blood-besprinkled witnesses. 
2 As thy command ordains, 

Thy people, saved below 
From all their sinful stains, 

Shall mxdtiply and grow ; 
And one into a thousand rise, 
To spread thy praise through earth and skies. 

994 S. M. 

The glorioles Gospel. 

THE nations of the earth. 
Almighty Lord, are thine ; 
And in thy works, from nature's birth, 
Thy radiant glories shine. 

2 Thy love hath also sent 
Thy gospel to our race ; 

Unveihng thy divine intent 
Of rich redeeming grace. 

3 When shall these tidings roll 
The spacious earth around, 

And every tribe and every soul 
Receive the joyful sound ? 

4 When shall the wand'rers meet. 
That now in darkness rove. 

And, gathered round ImmanueFs feet, 
Sing of his saving love ? 

5 Lord, our efforts own, 
To spread the gospel rays ; 

And rear, on sin's demohsh'd throne, 
The temples of thy praise. 



596 MISSIONARY 

995 L. M. 

Triumphs of mercy. 

ARM of the Lord, awake, awake ! 
Put on thy strength — the nations shake. 
And let the world, adormg, see 
Triumphs of mercy wrought by thee. 

2 Say to the heathen, from thy throne, 

1 am Jehovah — God alone : 

Thy voice their idols shall confound. 
And cast their altars to the ground. 

3 No more let creature blood be spilt — 
Vain sacrifice for human guilt ! 

But to each conscience be applied 
The blood that flow'd from Jesus' side. 

4 Almighty God, thy grace proclaim. 
In every land, of ^ every name ; 

Let adverse powers before thee fall. 
And crown the Saviour Lord of all. 

996 5th P. M. 4 lines Ts. 

Chrisfs universal reign. 

HASTEN, Lord, the glorious time, 
When, beneath Messiah's sway, 
Every nation, every clime. 
Shall the gospel call obey. 

2 Mightiest kings his power shall own ; 
Heathen tribes his Name adore; 

Satan and his host, o'erthrown. 

Bound in chains, shall hurt no more. 

3 Then shall wars and tmnults cease ; 
Then be banish'd grief and pain; 

Righteousness, and joy, and peace, 
Undisturbed, shall ever reign. 

4 Bless we, then, our gracious Lord ; 
Ever praise his glorious Name; 

All his mighty acts record, — 
All his wondrous love proclaim. 



MISSIONARY. 597 

997 L. M. 

The time to favour Zion. 

SOY'REIGN of worlds ! display thy power ; 
Be this thy Zion's favour d houi' : 
Bid the bright morning star arise, 
And point the nations to the skies. 

2 Set up thy throne where Satan reigns. 
On Afric's shore, on India's plains. 

On lonely isles and lands unknown. 
And make the nations all thine own. 

3 Speak ! and the world shall hear thy voice ; 
Speak ! and the desert shall rejoice ; 
Scatter the gloom of heathen night. 

And bid all nations hail the Ught. 

998 c. M. 

Christy the Conqueror, 

JESUS, immortal King, arise; 
Assert thy rightful sway; 
Till earth, subdued, its tribute brings, 
And distant lands obey. 

2 Ride forth, victorious Conqu'ror, ride. 
Till all thy foes submit. 

And all the powers of hell resign 
Their trophies at thy feet. 

3 Send forth thy word, and let it fly 
The spacious earth around. 

Till every soul beneath the sun 
Shall hear the joyful sound. 

4 may the great Redeemer's Name 
Through every clime be known, 

And heathen gods, forsaken, fall. 

And Jesus reign alone. 
6 From sea to sea, from^ shore to shore, 

Be thou, Christ, adored. 
And earth, with all her millions, shout 

Hosannas to the Lord. 



598 MISSIONARY. 

999 L. M. 

Christ's universal and everlasting kingdom. 

JESUS shall reign where'er the sun 
Does his successive journeys run ; 
His kingdom spread from shore to shore, 
Till moons shall wax and wane no more. 

2 From north to south the princes meet, 
To pay their homage. at his feet; 
While western empires own their Lord, 
And savage tribes attend his word. 

3 To him shall endless prayer be made. 
And endless praises crown his head ; 
His Name like sweet perfume shall rise 
With every morning sacrifice. 

4 People and realms of every tongue 
Dwell on his love with sweetest song. 
And infant voices shall proclaim 
Their early blessings on his Name. 

1000 33d P. M. 8 lines 6s. 

The death of martyrs. 

FLUNG to the heedless winds. 
Or on » the waters cast, 
The martyrs' ashes, watch'd, 

Shall gather'd be at last ; 
And from that scatter'd dust. 

Around us and abroad, 
Shall spring a plenteous seed 

Of witnesses for God. 
2 The Father hath received 

Their latest Uving breath ; 
And vain is Satan's boast 

Of vict'ry in their death : 
Still, stilly though dead, they speak, 

And, trumpet-tongued, proclaim, 
To' many a wak'ning land. 

The one availing Name. 



MISSIOKARY. 599 

1001 26th P. M. 16, 76, •76, 76. 

Th^ universal anthem, 

VHEN shall the voice of singing 
Flow joyfully along ? 
When hill and valley, ringing 
With one triumphant song, 
Proclaim the contest ended, 

And Him who once was slain, 
Again to earth descended. 
In righteousness to reign. 

2 Then from the craggy mountains 

The sacred shout shall fly ; 
And shady vales and fountains 

Shall echo the reply. 
High tower and lowly dwelling 

Shall send the chorus round, 
All hallelujahs swelling 

In one eternal soimd ! 

1002 'Zth P. M. 8 Urns 7s. 
The word glorified. 

SEE how great a flame aspires, 
Kindled by a spark of grace ! 
Jesus' love the nations fires, — 

Sets the kingdoms on a blaze. 
To bring fire on earth he came ; 
Kindled in some hearts it is : 
that all might catch the flame. 
All partake the glorious bhss ! 

2 When he first the work begun. 

Small and feeble was his day: 
Now the word doth swiftly nm ; 

Now it wins its widening way : 
More and more it spreads and grows. 

Ever mighty to prevail ; 
Sm's strongholds it now o'erthrows, — 

Shakes the trembling gates of hell. 



600 MISSIONARY. 

3 Sons of God, your Saviour praise ! 
He the door hath open'd wide ; 

He hath given the vrord of grace ; 

Jesus' word is glorified. 
Jesus, mighty to redeem. 

He alone the work hath wrought; 
Worthy is the work of him, — 

Him who spake a world from naught. 

4 Saw ye not the cloud arise. 
Little as a human hand? 

Now it spreads along the skies, — 
Hangs o'er all the thirsty land ; 

Lo ! the promise of a shower 
Drops already from above; 

But the Lord will shortly pour 
All the Spirit of his love. 

1003 '7th P. M. 8 lines 7s. 

The Watchman^s report. 

WATCHMAN, tell us of the night. 
What its signs of promise are. 
Trav'ler, o'er yon mountain's height 

See the glory-beaming star. 
Watchman, does its beauteous ray 
Aught of hope or joy foretell ? 
Trav'ler, yes, it brings the day — 
Promised day of Israel. 

2 Watchman, tell us of the night ; 

Higher yet that star ascends. 
Trav'ler, blessedness and light, 

Peace and truth, its course portends. 
Watchman, will its beams, alone. 

Gild the spot that gave them birth? 
Trav'ler, ages are its own ; 

See, it bursts o'er all the earth. 



MISSIONARY. 601 

3 WatcLman, tell us of the night. 

For the morning seems to dawn. 
Traveler, darkness takes its flight ; 

Doubt and terror are withdrawn. 
Watchman, let thy wand'ring cease ; 

Hie thee to thy quiet home. 
Traveler, lo ! the Prince of Peace, 

Lo! the Son of God is come. 

1004 7th P. M. 8 lines Is. 

.The song of jvhilee. 

HARK ! the song of jubilee ; 
Loud as mighty thunders roar. 
Or the fulness of the sea. 

When it breaks upon the shore : 
Hallelujah ! for the Lord 

God omnipotent shall reign ; 
Hallelujai ! let the word 

Echo round the earth and main. 

2 Hallelujah ! — hark ! the sound. 
From the centre to the skies. 

Wakes above, beneath, around. 

All creation's harmonies : 
See Jehovah's banners furl'd ; 

Sheath'd his sword: he speaks — 'tis done, 
And the kingdoms of this world 

Are the kingdoms of his Son. 

3 He shall reign from pole to pole 
With illimitable sway ; 

He shall reign, when, like a scroll, 
Yonder heavens have pass'd away: 

Then the end ; — ^beneath his rod, 
Man's last enemy shall fall ; 

Hallelujah ! Christ in God, 
God in Christ, is all in all. 



602 MISSIONARY. 

1005 L. M. 

l^he song of triumph. 

SOON may the last glad song arise, 
Through all the millions of the skies — - 
That song of triumph which records 
That all the earth is now the Lord's. 

2 Let thrones, and powers, and kingdoms, be 
Obedient, mighty God, to thee ; 

And over land, and stream, and main, 
Now wave the sceptre of thy reign. 

3 let that glorious anthem swell ; 
Let host to host the triumph tell, 
Till not one rebel heart remains, 
But over all the Saviom' reigns. 

1006 16th P. M. 11 12,11 12. 

Alleluia^ the Lord God omnipotent reignetk, 

OJOIN ye the anthems of triumph, that rise 
From the throng of the blest, from the hosts 
of the skies : 
Alleluia, they sing, in rapturous strains; 
Alleluia, the Lord God omnipotent reigns. 

2 He gave to the light its beneficent wings ; 

He controlleth the counsels of senates and kings : 
From his throne in the clouds the Ughtnings are 

hurl'd. 
And he ruleth the factions that rage through the 

world. 

3 Rejoice, ye that love him ; his power cannot 

fail; 
His omnipotent goodness shall surely prevail ; 
The triumph of evil will shortly be past. 
And omnipotent mercy shall conquer at last. 

4 Though Satan now maketh the nations his prey, 
The dominion of darkness shall soon pass away : 
Exulting, we join heaven's rapturous strains, — 
Alleluia, the Lord God omnipotent reigns. 



SUNDAY-SCHOOLS. 



1007 C. M. 

Blessedness of instructing the young. 

DELIGHTFUL work ! young souls to win. 
And tui*n the rising race 
From the deceitful paths of sin, 
To seek redeeming grace. 

2 Children our kind protection claim ; 
And God will well approve 

When infants learn to hsp his name, 
And their Redeemer love. 

3 Be ours the bliss, in wisdom's way 
To guide untutor'd youth, 

And show the mind which went astray 
The Way, the Life, the Truth. 

4 Almighty God, thine influence shed, 
To aid this blest desim: 

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The honours of thy Name be spread, 
And all the glory thine. 

1008 5th P. M. 4 lines Is. 

A blessing invoked on teachers. 

MIGHTY One, before whose face 
Wisdom had her glorious seat. 
When the orbs that people space 
Sprang to birth beneath thy feet ; 

2 Source of truth, whose rays alone 
Light the mighty world of mind ; 

God of love, who from thy throne 
Kindly watchest all mankind; 

3 Shed on those, who in thy Name 
Teach the way of truth and right. 

Shed that love's imdying flame, — 
Shed that wisdom's guiding light. 



604 SUNDAY-SCHOOLS. 

1009 c. M. 

For a blessing on the children, 

WISDOM ! whose unfading power 
Beside the' Eternal stood, 
To frame, in nature's earhest hour. 
The land, the sky, the flood ; 

2 Yet didst thou not disdain awliile 
An infant form to wear, — 

To bless thy mother with a smile. 
And Usp thy falter'd prayer. 

3 But in thy Father's own abode, 
With Israel's elders round, 

Conversing high with Israel's God, 
Thy chief est joy was found. 

4 So may our youth adore thy Name ! 
And, Saviour ! deign to bless 

With fost'ring grace the timid flame 
Of early holmess. 

1010 C.M. 

The Christian child. 

BY cool Siloam's shady rill 
How sweet the lily grows ! 
How sweet the breath, beneath the hill, 
Of Sharon's dewy rose ! 

2 Lo ! such the child whose early feet 
The paths of peace have trod — 

Whose secret heart, with influence sweet 
Is upward drawn to God. 

3 By cool Siloam's shady rill 
The lily must decay ; 

The rose that blooms beneath the hill 
Must shortly fade away. 

4 And soon, too soon, the wintry hour 
Of man's maturer age 

Will shake the soul with sorrow's power. 
And stormy passion's rage. 



SUNDAY-SCHOOLS. 605 

5 Thou who givest life and breath, 

We seek thy grace alone, 
In childhood, manhood, age, and death, 

To keep us still thine own. 

1011 1st P. M. 6 lines 8s. 

Sanctified knowledge, 

COME, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, 
To whom we for our children cry. 
The good desired, and wanted most. 
Out of thy richest grace supply ; 
The sacred disciphne be given. 
To train and bring them up for heaven. 

2 Error and ignorance remove; 

Their blindness, both of heart and mind: 
Give them the wisdom from above, — 

Spotless, and peaceable, and kind: 
In knowledge pure their minds renew, 
And store with thoughts divinely true. 

3 Learning's redundant part and vain 
Be here cut off, and cast aside : 

But let them. Lord, the substance gain ; 

In every solid truth abide ; 
Swiftly acquire, and ne'er forego 
The knowledge fit for man to know. 

4 Unite the pair so long disjoined. 
Knowledge and vital piety: 

Learning and holiness combined. 

And truth and love, let all men see 
In those whom up to thee we give. 
Thine, wholly thine, to die and Uve. 

1012 CM. 

Anniversary ; the children's jvhilee. 

HOSANNA, be the children's song, 
To Christ, the children's King; 
His praise, to whom our souls belong, 
Let all the children sing. 



606 SUNDAY-SCHOOLS. 

2 From little ones to Jesus brought, 
Hosanna now be heard ; 

Let little infants now be taught 
To lisp that lovely word. 

3 Hosanna, sound from hill to hill, 
And spread from plain to plain, 

While louder, sweeter, clearer still. 
Woods echo to the strain. 

4 Hosanna, on the wings of light, 
O'er earth and ocean fly, 

. Till mom to eve, and noon to night. 
And heaven to earth, reply. 

5 Hosanna, then, our song shall be ; 
Hosanna to our King : 

This is the children's jubilee ; 
Let all the children sing. 

1013 c. M. 

Children recalling the example of Jesus, 

¥HEN Jesus left his Father's throne, 
He chose an humble birth ; 
And, all unhonour'd and unknown. 
He came to dwell on earth. 

2 Like him, may we be found below 
In wisdom's path of peace ; 

Like him, in grace and knowledge grow. 
As years and strength increase. 

3 Sweet were his words, and kind his look. 
When mothers round him press'd ; 

Their infants in his arms he took. 
And on his bosom blest. 

4 Safe from the world's alluring charms, 
Beneath his watchful eye. 

Thus, in the circle of his arms, 
May we forever lie. 



SUNDAY-SCHOOLS. 607 

1014 26th P. M. 76, 16, 76, 76. 

Grateful praise. 
FE bring no glitt'ring treasures. 



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No gems from earth's deep mine ; 
We come, with simple measm^es. 

To chant thy love divine. 
Children, thy favours sharing, 

Their voice of thanks would raise ; 
Father, accept our oflf'ring, 

Our song of grateful praise. 

2 The dearest gift of Heaven, 
Love's written word of truth, 

To us is early given. 

To guide our steps in youth ; 
We hear the wondrous story. 

The tale of Calvary ; 
We read of homes in glory, 

From sin and sorrow free. 

3 Redeemer ! grant thy blessing ! 
! teach us how to pray. 

That each, thy fear possessing. 
May tread life's onward way ; 

Then where the pure are dwelling 
We hope to meet again. 

And sweeter numbers swelling, 
Forever praise thy Name. 

1015 L. M. 

Hosanna to the Son of David, 

VHAT are those soul-reviving strains 
Which echo thus from Salem's plains .* 
Wliat anthems loud, and louder still, 
So sweetly sound from Zion's hill ? 

2 Lo ! 'tis an infant chorus sings 
Hosanna to the King of kings : 
The Saviour comes ! — and babes proclaim 
Salvition, sent in Jesus' name. 



608 SUNDAY-SCHOOLS. 

3 Nor these alone their voice shall raise. 
For we will join this song of praise ; 
Still Israel's children forward press, 

To hail the Lord their Righteousness. 

4 Messiah's name shall joy impart 
Alike to Jew and Gentile heart : 
He bled for us, he bled for you, 
And we will sing hosanna too. 

5 Proclaim hosannas, loud and clear ; 
See David's Son and Lord appear! 
All praise on eaiiih to him be given. 
And glory shout through highest heaven. 

1016 c. M. 

Children in heaven. 

THERE is a glorious world of light, 
Above the staiTy sky. 
Where saints departed, clothed in white. 
Adore the Lord most high. 

2 And hark, amid the sacred songs 
Those heavenly voices raise, 

Ten thousand thousand infant tongues 
Unite in perfect praise. 

3 Those are the hymns that we shall know, 
If Jesus we obey ; 

That is the place where we shall go. 
If found in wisdom's way. 

4 Soon will our earthly race be run — 
Our mortal frame decay ; 

Children and teachers, one by one. 
Must die and pass away. 

5 Great God, impress this serious thought. 
To-day, on every breast; 

That both the teachers and the taught 
May dwell among the blest. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



PUBLIC FASTS. 

1017 1st P. M. 6 lines 8s. 

Unfaithfulness acknowledged and lamented, 

OGOD, thy righteousness we own; 
Judgment is at thy house begun; 
With humble awe thy rod we hear, 
And guilty in thy sight appear; 
We cannot in thy judgment stand. 
But sink beneath thy mighty hand. 

2 Our mouth as in the dust we lay, 
And still for mercy, mercy pray ; 
Unworthy to behold thy face, 
Unfaithful stewards of thy grace, 
Our sin and wickedness we own. 
And deeply for acceptance groan. 

3 We have not, Lord, thy gifts improved. 
But basely from thy statutes roved ; 
Yet do not drive us from thy face, 

A stiff-neck'd and hard-hearted race : 
The melting power of love impart ; 
Soften the marble of our heart. 

1018 CM. 

Deprecating the anger of God. 

BEHOLD, Lord ! before thy throne 
Thy mourning people bend : 
'Tis on thy sovereign grace alone 
Our humble hopes depend. 

2 Tremendous judgments from thy hand 
Thy dreadful power display; 

Yet mercy spares this guilty land, 
And yet we live to pray. 
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610 MISCELLANEOUS. 

3 And why, great God, are we thus spared. 
Ungrateful as we are? 

make thine awful warnings heard. 
While mercy cries, — Forbear ! 

4 turn us, turn us, blessed Lord, 
By thine almighty grace; 

Then shall our hearts obey thy word. 
And ever seek thy face. 

5 Hear thou our prayers, and grant us aid ; 
Bid wars forever cease : 

Heal every breach that sin has made. 
And bless our land with peace. 

1019 9th P. M. 87,87. 
Pardon implored for national sins. 

DREAD Jehovah ! God of nations ! 
From thy temple in the skies. 
Hear thy people's supplications ; 
Now for their deliverance rise. 

2 Lo ! with deep contrition turning, 
In thy holy place we bend ; 

Hear us, fasting, praying, mourning ; 
Hear us, spare us, and defend. 

3 Though our sins, our hearts confounding, 
Long and loud for vengeance call, 

Thou hast mercy more abounding ; 
Jesus' blood can cleanse them all. 

4 Let that mercy veil transgression ; 
Let that blood our guilt efface : 

Save thy people from oppression ; 
Save from spoil thy holy place. 

1020 . . c. M. 

Impending judgments, 

COME, let our souls adore the Lord, 
Whose judgments yet delay ; 
Who yet suspends the lifted sword, 
And gives us time to pray. 



PUBLIC FASTS. (JH 

2 Great is our guilt, our fears are great, 
But let us not despair; 

Still open is the mercy-seat 
To penitence and prayer. 

3 Kind Intercessor, to thy love 
This blessed hope we owe: 

O let thy merits plead above. 
While we implore below. 

4 Though justice near thy awful throne 
Attends thy dread command. 

Lord, hear thy servants, hear thy Son, 
And save a guilty land. 

1021 S. M. 

The day of vengeance, 

SINNERS, the call obey— 
The latest call of grace : 
The day is come, the vengeful day 

Of a devoted race : 
Devils and men combine 

To plague the faithless seed, 
And phials full of wrath divine 

Are bursting on your head. 
2 Enter into the Rock, 

Ye trembling slaves of sin — 
The Rock of your salvation, struck 

And cleft to take you in : 
To shelter the distressed 

He did the cross endure; 
Enter into the clefts, and rest 

In Jesus' wounds secm^e. 

1022 S. M. 

dmtinued. — Our help comet h from the Lord, 

JESUS, to thee we fly 
From the devouring sword; 
Our city of defence is nigh ; 
Our help is in thv Lord. 



612 MISCELLANEOU S. 

Or if the scourge o'erflow. 
And laugh at innocence. 

Thine everlasting arms, we know. 
Shall be our souls' defence. 

2 We in thy word believe, 

And on thy promise stay; 
Our life, which still to thee we give. 

Shall be to us a prey: 
Our life with thee we hide 

Above the furious blast. 
And sheltered in thy wounds abide 

Till all the storms are past. 



THANKSGIVINGS. 

1023 L. M. 

God^s goodness crowns the year. 

ETERNAL Source of every joy. 
Well may thy praise our hps employ, 
While in thy temple we appear. 
Whose goodness crowns the circling year. 

2 The jBowery spring, at thy command. 
Embalms the air, and paints the land; 
The summer rays with vigour shine. 
To raise the com, and cheer the vine. 

3 Thy hand, in autumn, richly pours 
Through all our coasts redundant stores , 
And winters, soften'd by thy care, 

No more a face of horror wear. 

4 Seasons, and months, and weeks, and days. 
Demand successive songs of praise ; 

Still be the cheerful homage paid. 
With opening light and evening shade. 



THANKSGIVINGS. 613 

5 may our more harmonious tonj^ue 
In worlds imknown pm*sue the song ; 
And m those brighter courts adore, 
Where days and years revolve no more. 

1024 L. M. 

National blessings. 

GREAT God of nations, now to thee 
Our hymn of gratitude we raise ; 
With humble heart, and bending knee, 
We offer thee our song of praise. 

2 Thy Name we bless, almighty God, 
For all the kindness thou hast shown 

To this fair land the pilgrims trod, — 
This land we fondly call om- own. 

3 Here freedom spreads her banner wide. 
And casts her soft and hallow'd ray; 

Here thou our fathers' steps didst guide 
In safety through their dang'rous way. 

4 We praise thee that the gospel's light 
Through all our land its radiance sheds ; 

Dispels the shades of error's night. 

And heavenly blessings round us spreads. 

5 Great God, preserve us in thy fear; 
In danger stHl our guardian be; 

0, spread thy truth's bright precepts here ; 
Let all the people worship thee. 

1025 c. M. 

God^s bountiful goodness. 

FOUNTAIN of mercy, God of love, 
How rich thy bounties are! 
The rolling seasons, as they move. 

Proclaim thy constant care. 
2 When in the bosom of the earth 

The sower hid the grain, 
Thy goodness mark'd its secret birth. 
And sent the early rain. 



(y\4 MISCELLANEOUS. 

3 The spring's sweet influence, Lord, was thine; 
The plants in beauty grew; 

Thou gav'st refulg^.nt suns to shine. 
And the refreshing dew. 

4 These various mercies from above 
Matured the sweUing grain; 

A kindly harvest crowns thy love, 
And plenty fills the plain. 

5 We own and bless thy gracious sway; 
Thy hand all nature hails : 

Seed-time nor harvest, night nor day. 
Summer nor mnter, fails. 

1026 19th p. M. 664,6664. 

Praise to the God of harvest 

THE God of harvest praise ; 
In loud thanksgi\ing raise 
Hand, heart, and voice; 
The valleys smile and sing, 
Forests and mountains ring. 
The plains their tribute bring. 
The streams rejoice. 

2 Yea, bless his holy Name, 
And purest thanks proclaim 

Through all the earth ; 
To glory in your lot 
Is duty, — but be not 
God's benefits forgot, 
-^ Amid your mirth. 

3 The God of harvest praise ; 
Hands, hearts, and voices, raise. 

With sweet accord ; 
From field to gamer throng. 
Bearing your sheaves along. 
And in your harvest song 

Bless ye the Lord. 



PEACE. 615 



PEACE. 

1027 L. M. 

Thanksgiving for national peace, 

GREAT Ruler of the earth and skies, 
A word of thine almighty breath 
Can sink the world, or bid it rise : 
Thy smile is life, thy frown is death. 

2 When angry nations rush to arms, 
And rage, and noise, and tumult reign, 

And war resounds its dire alarms. 

And slaughter dyes the hostile plain, — 

3 Thy sovereign eye looks calmly down. 
And marks their course, and bounds their 

power ; 
Tliy law the angry nations own, 

And noise and war are heard no more. 

4 Then peace returns with balmy wing; 
Sweet peace, with her what blessings fled 

Glad plenty laughs, the valleys sing, 
Reviving commerce lifts her head. 

6 To tht'.e we pay our grateful songs ; 

Thy kmd protection still implore : 
may our hearts, and hves, and tongues, 

Confess thy goodness, and adore. 

1028 4th P. M. 886,886. 

In time of peace, 

A NATION God dehghts to bless, 
Can all our raging foes distress. 
Or hurt whom they surround? 
Hid from the general scourge we are. 
Nor see the bloody waste of war. 
Nor hear the trumpet's sound. 



<i) 1 6 MISCELLANEOUS. 

2 may we, Lord, the grace improve, 
By laboring for the rest of love — 

The soul-composing power; 
Bless us with that internal peace. 
And all the fruits of lighteousness. 

Till time shall be no more. 



OUR COUNTRY. 

1029 . . . C- ^^- 

National deliverances ascribed to God. 

OLORD, our fathers oft have told. 
In our attentive ears. 
Thy wonders in their days perform'd, 
And in more ancient years. 

2 'Twas not their courage, or their sword. 
To them salvation gave; 

Twas not their number, or their strength, 
That did their country save. 

3 But thy right hand, thy powerful arm, 
Whose succom' they implored, — 

Thy providence protected them, 
Who thy great Name adored. 

4 As thee their God our fathers own'd. 
So thou art still our King ; 

0, therefore, as thou didst to them, 
To us deUv'rance bring. 

5 To thee the glory we ascribe. 
From whom salvation came; 

In God, our shield, we will rejoice. 
And ever bless thy Name. 

1030 . L. M. 

Gody the nation^ s guardian. 

GREAT God ! beneath whose piercing eye 
The earth's extended kingdoms lie ; 
Whose fav'ring smile upholds them all. 
Whose anger smites them, and they fall;-- 



OUR COUNTRY. 617 

2 We bow before thy heavenly throne ; 
Thy power we see — ^thy greatness own ; 
Yet, cherish'd by thy milder voice, 
Our bosoms tremble and rejoice. 

3 Thy kindness to our fathers shown 
Their children's children long shall own ; 
To thee, with grateful hearts, shall raise 
The tribute of exulting praise. 

4 Led on by thine unerring aid, 
Secure the paths of life we tread , 
And, freely as the vital air. 

Thy first and noblest bounties share. 

5 Great God, our guardian, guide, and friend ! 
still thy shelt'ring arm extend; 
Preserved by thee for ages past. 

For ages let thy kindness last ! 

1031 c. M. 

Prayer for our native land, 

LORD, while for all mankind we pray, 
Of every clime and coast, 
hear us for our native land, — 
The land we love the most. 

2 O guard our shores from every foe ; 
With peace our borders bless — 

Our cities with prosperity. 
Our fields with plenteousness. 

3 Unite us in the sacred love 

Of knowledge, truth, and thee : 
And let our hills and valleys chant 
The songs of hberty. 

4 Lord of the nations, thus to thee 
Our country we commend ; 

Be thou her refuge and her trust. — 
Her everlasting friend. 



618 MISCELLANEOUS. 

CHARITABLE AND BENEVOLENT. 

1032 c. M. 

Sympathy with the afflicted. 

FATHER of mercies, send thy grace, 
All-powerful, from above, 
To fonn in our obedient souls 
The image of thy love. 

2 ! may our sympathizing breasts 
That generous pleasure know. 

Kindly to share in others' joy, 
And weep for others' wo. 

3 When poor and helpless sons of grief 
In deep distress are laid. 

Soft be our hearts their pains to feel, 
And swift our hands to aid. 

4 So Jesus look'd on dying man, 
When, throned above the skies, 

And in the Father's bosom blest. 
He felt compassion rise. 

5 On wings of love the Saviour flew. 
To bless a ruin'd race ; 

We would, Lord, thy steps pursue. 
Thy bright example trace. 

1033 CM. 

Deeds of love, for Christ^ s sake, rewarded. 

HOW blest the children of the Lord, 
Who, walking in his sight. 
Make all the precepts of his word 
Their study and delight. 

2 That precious wealth shall be their dow^r 

Which cannot know decay; 
Which moth or rust shall ne'er devour. 

Or spoiler take away. 



CHARITABLE AND BENEVOLENT. 619 

3 For them that heavenly light shall spread, 
Whose cheering rays illume 

The darkest hours of life, and shed 
A halo round the tomb. 

4 Their works of piety and love, 
Performed through Christ, theu' Lord, 

Forever registered above. 
Shall meet a sure reward. 

1034 c. M. 

Deeds of charity, 

HIGH on a throne of light, O Lord, 
Dost thou exalted shme : 
What can our poverty bestow. 
Since all the world is thine? 

2 But thou hast bretliren here below, 
Partakers of thy grace. 

Whose himible names thou wilt confess 
Before thy Father's face. 

3 In them may'st thou be clothed and fed. 
And visited and cheer'd; 

And, in their accents of distress, 
The Saviour's voice be heard. 

4 Whate'er our willing hands can give, 
Lord, at thy feet we lay ; 

Grace will the humble gift receive, 
And grace at length repay. 

1035 L. M. 

More blessed to give than to receive. 

HELP us, Lord, thy yoke to wear, 
Dehghting in thy perfect will ; 
Each other's burdens learn to bear. 

And thus thy law of love fulfil 
2 He that hath pity on the poor, 

Lendeth his substance to the Lord ; 
And, lo ! his recompense is sure. 
For more than all shall be restored. 



*320 MISCELLANEOUS. 

3 Teach us, with glad, ungrudging heart, 
As thou hast blest our various store, 

From our abundance to impart 
A hb'ral portion to the poor. 

4 To thee our all devoted be. 

In whom we breathe, and move, and live ; 
Freely we have received from thee ; 
Freely may we rejoice to give. 

5 And while we thus obey thy word. 
And every call of want relieve, 

! may we find it, gracious Lord ! 
More blest to give than to receive. 

1036 c. M. 

Anniversary of an orphan asylum : by the childreiu 

AGAIN the kind revolving year 
Has brought this happy day; 
And we in God's blest house appear 
Again our vows to pay. 

2 Our watchful guardians, robed in light, 
Adore the heavenly King ; 

Ten thousand thousand seraphs bright 
Incessant praises sing. 

3 They know no want, they feel no care, 
Nor ever sigh as we ; 

Sorrow and sin are strangers there. 
And all is harmony. 

4 If aught can there enhance their bUss, 
Or raise then* raptures higher, 

New joys in heaven at sights Hke this, 
New anthems fill the chou\ 

5 With what resembling care and love 
Both worlds for us appear ; 

Our friendly guardians those above, — 
Our benefactors here. 



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MARINERS. 

1037 oth P. L. 4 hues Vb. 

Embarking. 

LORD, whom winds anv^ seas obey, 
Guide us through the watery way ; 
In the hollow of thy hand 
Hide, and bring us safe to land. 

2 Jesus, let our faithful mind 
Rest, on thee alone reclined : 
Every anxious thought repress ; 
Keep our souls in perfect peace. 

'3 Keep the souls whom now we leave; 
Bid them to each other cleave ; 
Bid them walk on life's rough sea; 
Bid them come by faith to thee. 

4 Save, till all these tempests end, 
All who on thy love depend ; 
Waft our happy spirits o'er ; 
Land us on the heavenly shore. 

1038 c. M. 

God's servants safe by sea or land. 

HOW are thy servants blest, Lord ; 
How sure is then* defence ! 
Eternal wisdom is then* guide, 
Then- help, — omnipotence. 

2 In foreign realms, and lands remote. 
Supported by thy care, 

Through burning climes they pass unhiu*^^ 
And breathe in tainted air. 

3 When by the dreadful tempest borne 
High on the broken wave, 

They know thou art not slow to hear. 
Nor impotent to save. 



f>22 MISCELLANEOUS. 

4 The storm is laid, the winds retire, 
Obedient to thy will ; 

The sea, that roars at thy command. 
At thy command is still. 

5 In midst of dangers, fears, and deaths, 
Thy goodness we '11 adore ; 

We '11 praise thee for thy mercies past, 
And humbly hope for more. 

6 Our Ufe, while thou preserv'st that life» 
Thy sacrifice shall be; 

And death, — when death shall be our lot,- 
Shall join our souls to thee. 

1039 12th P. M. 76,76,78,76. 

Safe with Jesus in the ship. 

LORD of earth, and air, and sea. 
Supreme in power and grace. 
Under thy protection we 

Our souls and bodies place. 
Bold an unknown land to try. 

We launch into the foaming deep ; 
Rocks, and storms, and deaths defy. 

With Jesus in the ship. 
2 Who the calm can understand, 

In a believer's breast? 
In the hollow of His hand 

Our souls securely rest : 
Winds may rise, and seas may roar; 

We on his love our spirits stay; 
Him with quiet joy adore 

Whom winds and seas obey. 

1040 5th P. M. 4 lines 7& 

God*s wonders on the deep. 

THEY that toil upon the deep. 
And, in vessels hght and frail. 
O'er the mighty waters sweep. 
With the billow and the gale,— 



MARINERS. 623 

2 Mark what wonders God perfoiins. 
When he speaks ; and, unconfined, 

Rush to battle all his storms, 
In the chariots of the wind. 

3 Up to heaven their bark is whirled. 
On the mountain of the wave ; 

Down as suddenly 'tis hurl'd 
To the' abysses of the grave. 

4 Tlien unto the Lord they cry ; 
He inclines a gracious ear, 

Sends deliv'rance from on high, 
Rescues them from all their fear. 

5 O that men would praise the Lord, 
For his goodness to their race : 

For the wonders of his word, 
And the riches of his grace. 

1041 ... L. M. 

His way is in the sea. 

LORD of the wide, extensive main. 
Whose power the wind, the sea, controls, 
Whose hand doth earth and heaven sustain, 
Whose Spirit leads believing souls : 

2 'Tis here thine unknown paths we trace. 
Which dark to human eyes appear ; 

While through the mighty waves we pass. 
Faith only sees that God is here. 

3 Throughout the deep thy footsteps shine; 
We own thy way is in the sea, 

O'erawed by majesty divine. 
And lost in thine inunensity. 

4 Thy wisdom here we learn to' adore ; 
Thine everlasting truth we prove; 

Amazing heights of boundless power, 
Unfathomable depths of love. 



624 MISCELLANEOUS. 

1042 10th P. M. 8 lines 8s. 
He holdeth the waters in His hand. 

OTHOU, who hast spread out the skies, 
And measured the depths of the sea, 
Our mcense of praise «^hall arise 

In joyous thanksgiving to thee. 
Forever thy presence is near, 

Though heaves our bark far from the land ; 
We ride on the deep without fear; 
The waters are held in thy hand. 

2 Eternity comes in the sound 

Of billows that never can sleep ; ^ 

Jehovah encircles us round ; 

Omnipotence walks on the deep. 
Our Father, we look up to thee, 

As on tow'rd the haven we roll ; 
And faith in our Pilot shall be 

An anchor to steady the soul. 

1043 L. M. 

Oalm in the storm, 

GLORY to Thee, whose powerful word 
Bids the tempestuous winds arise; 
Glory to thee, the sov'reign Lord 
Of air, and earth, and sea, and skies. 

2 Let air, and earth, and skies obey, 
And seas thine awful will perform: 

From them we learn to own thy sway. 
And shout to meet the gathering storm. 

3 What though the floods lift up their voice ; 
Thou hearest. Lord, our louder cry ; 

They cannot damp thy children's joys. 
Or shake the soul when God is nigh. 

4 Headlong we cleave the yawning dee^, 
And back to highest heaven are borne, 

Unmoved, though rapid whirlwinds sweep, 
And all the watery iirorld upturn. 



MARINERS. 6^ 

5 Roar on, ye waves ; our souls defy 
Your roaring to disturb our rest; 

In vain to' impair the calm ye try — 
The calm in a believer's breast. 

6 Rage, while oui' faith the Saviour tries. 
Thou sea, the servant of his will ; 

Rise, wliile our God permits thee, rise. 
But fall when he shall say, — Be stilL 

1044 S. M. 

Praise for protecting mercy. 

VHEN o'er the deep we rode. 
By winds and storms assail'd; 
We call'd upon the ocean's God, 
Whose mercy never fail'd. 

2 The tempest heard his voice, 
The winds obey'd his will; 

The elements withheld their noise, 
And all the floods were still. 

3 With joy we hail'd the shore. 
And safe the vessel moor'd ; 

With grateful hearts, that happy hour, 
We praised the ocean's Lord. 

4 Thus, while o'er seas we roam. 
Thy goodness. Lord, we see ; 

Though distant from our native home, 
We are not far from thee. 

5 And when this life is past. 
And we are call'd to die, 

may we see thy face at last 
In realms beyond the sky. 

6 Then, as we join the bands 
Beyond the swelling wave, 

We'll praise thee with uphfted hands, 
And sing thv power to save. 

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626 MISCELLANEOUS. 

1045 , 29th P. M. 4 lines 12s. 

SavCy Lord^ or we perish ! 

¥HEN' through the torn sail the wild tempest 
is streaming, 
When o'er the dark wave the red lightning is 

gleaming, 
Nor hope lends a ray, the poor seaman to cherish. 
We fly to our Maker, — Save, Lord, or we perish ! 

2 Jesus, once rock'd on the breast of the billow. 
Aroused by the shriek of despair from thy pillow, — 
Now seated in glory, the mariner cherish. 

Who cries, in his anguish, — Save, Lord, or we perish! 

3 And, 0, when the whirlwind of passion is raging. 
When sin in our hearts its sad warfare is waging, 
Then send down thy grace, thy redeemed to cherish ; 
Rebuke the destroyer, — Save, Lord, or we perish ! 

1046 18th P. M. 10,5,11. 

Deliverance from danger, 

A LL praise to the Lord, who rules with a word 
/jl The untractable sea, 
And limits its rage by his steadfast decree : 
Whose providence binds or releases the winds. 

And compels them again, 
At his beck, to put on the invisible chain. 

2 E'en now he hath heard our cry, and appear'd 

On the face of the deep. 
And commanded the tempest its distance to keep; 
His piloting hand hath brought us to land, 

And, no longer distress'd, 
We are joyful again in the haven to rest. 

3 that all men would raise His tribute of praise. 

His goodness declare. 
And thankfully sing of his fatherly care ; 
With rapture approve His deaUngs of love, 

And the wonders proclaim 
Performed by the virtue of Jesus's Name. 



TIME AND ETERNITY. 



WATCH-NIGHT. 

1047 1st P. M. 6 lines 8h. 

A solemn vigil. 

HOW many pass the guilty night 
In revelling and frantic mirth! 
The creature is their sole delight — 

Their happiness the things of earlh • 
For us suffice the season past : 
We choose the better part at last. 

2 We will not close our wakeful eyes, 
We will not let our eyehds sleep, 

But humbly lift them to the skies, 

And all a solemn vigil keep ; 
So many nights on sin bestow'd, 
Can we not watch one hour for God? 

3 We can, Jesus, for thy sake, 
Devote our every hour to thee ; 

Speak but the word, our souls shall waktf. 

And sing with cheerful melody : 
Thy praise shall our glad tongues employ 
And every heart shall dance for joy. 

4 Blest object of our faith and love, 
We listen for thy welcome voice ; 

Our persons and our works approve. 

And bid us in thy strength rejoice ; 
Now let us hear the mighty cry, 
And shout to find the Bridegroom nigh. 

5 Shout m the midst of us, O King 
Of saints, and let our joys abound ; 

Let us rejoice, give thanks, and sing. 
And triumph in redemption found: 
We ask in faith for every soul ; 
let our glorious joy be full ! 



628 TIME AND ETERNllT. 

6 may we all triumphant rise; 

With joy upon our heads return ; 
And far above these nether skies, 

By thee on eagles^ wings upborne, 
Through all yon radiant circles move, 
And gain the highest heaven of love. 

1048 1st P. M. 6 lines 8s. 
A living sacrifice unto the Lord. 

VISDOM ascribe, and might, and praise. 
To God, who lengthens out our days ; 
Who spares us yet another year. 
And makes us see his goodness here : 
O may we all the time redeem. 
And henceforth live and die to him ! 

2 How often, when his arm was baied, 
Hath he our sinful Israel spared ; 

Let me alone, — his mercy cried. 
And turn'd the vengeful bolt aside ; 
Indulged another kmd reprieve, 
Ajid strangely suffered us to Uve. 

3 Merciful God, how shall we raise 
Our hearts to pay thee all thy praise ? 
Our hearts shall beat for thee alone ; 

Our lives shall make thy goodness known ; 
Our souls and bodies shall be thine, 
A living sacrifice divine. 

1049 c. M. 

A midnight song, 

JOIN, all ye ransom'd sons of grace. 
The holy joy prolong. 
And shout to the Redeemer's praise 

A solemn midnight song. 
2 Blessing, and thanks, and love, and might, 

Be to our Jesus given. 
Who turns our darkness into light, 
Who turns our hell to heaven. 



WATCH-NIGHT. G29 

3 Thither our faithful souls he leads ; 

Thither he bids us rise, 
With crowns of joy upon our heads, 

To meet Him in the skies. 

1050 3d P. M. 4 6s & 2 8s. 

The Bridegroom cometh, 

YE virgin souls, arise ; 
Witli all the dead, awake ; 
Unto salvation wise, 

Oil in your vessels take : 
Upstarting at the midnight ciy — 
Behold the heavenly Bridegroom nigh ! 

2 He comes, he comes, to call 
The nations to his bar, 

And take to glory all 
Who meet for glory are: 
Made ready for your full reward ; 
Go forth with joy to meet your Lord. 

3 Go, meet him in the sky. 
Your everlasting Friend ; 

Your Head to glorify. 

With all his saints ascend : 
Ye pure in heart, obtain the grace 
To see, without a veil, his face. 

4 The everlasting doors 

Shall soon the saints receive. 
With seraphs, thrones, and powers. 

In glorious joy to live ; 
Far from a world of grief and sin, 
With God eternally shut in. 

5 Then let us wait to hear 

The trumpet's welcome sound : 
To see om- Lord appear. 

May we be watching found : 
And when thou dost the heavens bow. 
Be found — as, Lord, thou find'st us now. 



630 TIME AND ETERNITY. 

1051 nth P. M. 76,-76, 77, 76. 

The midnight cry. 

HEARKEN to the solemn voice, 
The awful midnight cry; 
Waiting souls, rejoice, rejoice, 

And see the Bridegroom nigh : 
Lo, he comes to keep his word; 

Light and joy his looks impart : 
Go ye forth to meet yoiu* Lord, 
And meet him in your heart. 

2 Ye who faint beneath the load 

Of sin, your heads hft up ; 
See your great redeeming God ; 

He comes, and bids you hope. 
In the midnight of your grief, 

Jesus doth his mourners cheer; 
Lo, he brings you sure rehef ; 

Believe, and feel him here. 

1052 '^th P. M. 8 lines 7s. 

Retrospect of a year. 

¥HILE, with ceaseless comse, the sun 
Hasted through the former year, 
Many souls their race have run, 
Never more to meet us here: 
Fix'd in an eternal state. 

They have done with all below; 
We a little longer wait, 

But how httle — none can know. 

2 As the winged arrow flies 

Speedily the mark to find ; 
As the lightning from the skies 

Darts, and leaves no trace behind, — 
Swiftly thus our fleeting days 

Bear us down life's rapid stream; 
Upward, Lord, our spirits raise ; 

All below is but a dream. 



NEW-YEAR. 631 

3 Thanks for mercies past receive; 

Pardon of our sins renew ; 
Teach us henceforth how to live 

With eternity in view : 
Bless thy word to young and old , 

Fill us with a Saviour's love; 
And when life's short tale is told, 

May we reign with thee above. 



NEW- YEAR. 

1053 18th P. M. 10,5,11. 

Renewed fidelity and zeal. 

nOME, let us anew our journey pursue, 
Roll round with the year, 
And never stand still till the Master appear. 
His adorable will let us gladly fulfil. 

And our talents improve, 
By the patience of hope, and the labour of love 

2 Our life is a dream : our time, as a stream. 

Glides swiftly away. 
And the fugitive moment refuses to stay. 
The anow is flown, — the moment is gone ; 

The millennial year 
Rushes on to our view, and eternity 's here. 

3 that each, in the day of His coming, may 

say,— 
I have fought my way through; 
I hav^ finished the work thou didst give me io do. 
O that each from his Lord may receive the glad 
word, — 
Well i.nd faithfully done ! 
Enter into my joy, and sit down on my throne. 



632 TIME AND ETLRNITT. 

1054 c. M. 

Renewing the covenant. 

COME, let us use the grace divine, 
And all, with one accord. 
In a perpetual cov'nant join 

Ourselves to Christ the Lord; — 

2 Give up ourselves, through Jesus' power, 
His Name to glorify; 

And promise, in this sacred hour, 
For God to live and die. 

3 The cov'nant we this moment make 
Be ever kept in mind ; 

We will no more our God forsake, 
Or cast his words behind. 

4 We never will throw off his fear, 
Who hears our solemn vow; 

And if thou ait well pleased to hear. 
Come down, and meet us now. 

5 Thee, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, 
Let all our hearts receive ; 

Present with the celestial host, 
The peaceful answer give. 

6 To each the cov'nant blood apply, 
Which takes our sins away; 

And register our names on high. 
And keep us to that day. 

1055 CM. 

With praise and thanksgiving, 

SING to the great Jehovah's praise ; 
All praise to him belongs ; 
Who kindly lengthens out oiu* days. 

Demands our choicest songs : 
His providence hath brought us through 

Another various year; 
We all, with vows and anthems new. 
Before our God appear. 



NEW- YEAR. 635 

2 Father, thy mercies past we own, — 
Thy still continued care, — 

To thee presenting, through thy Son, 

Whatever we have or are : 
Our hps and lives shall gladly show 

The wonders of thy love ; 
While on in Jesus' steps we go, 

To seek thy face above. 

3 Our residue of days or hours 
Thine, wholly thine, shall be ; 

And all oui' consecrated powers 

A sacrifice to thee, — 
Till Jesus in the clouds appear. 

To saints on earth forgiven. 
And bring the grand Sabbatic year. 

The jubilee of heaven. 

1056 3d p. M. 4 6s & 2 8s. 

The barren Jig-tree. 

THE Lord of earth and sky. 
The God of ages, praise. 
Who reigns enthroned on high. 
Ancient of endless days, — 
Who lengthens out our trials here. 
And spares us yet another year. 

2 Barren and withered trees. 

We cumber'd long the ground; 
No fruit of holiness 

On our dead souls was found ; 
Yet doth he us in mercy spare, 
Another and another year. 

3 When justice bared the sword 
To cut the fig-tree down. 

The pity of the Lord 

Cried, — Let it still alone : 
The Father mild inclmes his ear. 
And spares us yet another year. 



634 TIME AND ETERNITY. 

4 Jesus, thy speaking blood 
From God obtain'd the grace, 

Who therefore hath bestow'd 
On us a longer space ; 
Thou didst in our behalf appear, 
And, lo! we see another year. 

5 Then dig about the root; 
Break up our fallow ground ; 

And let our gracious fruit 
To thy great praise abound ; 
O let us all thy praise declare, 
And fruit unto perfection bear. 



BREVITY AND UNCERTAINTY OF LIFE. 

1057 S. M. 

On beginning a new year. 

OUR few revolving years, 
How swift they ghde away ; 
How short the term of life appears 
When past — but as a day ! — 

2 A dark and cloudy day. 
Clouded by grief and sin ; 

A host of enemies without, 
Distressing fears within. 

3 Lord, through another year 
If thou permit our stay, 

With diligence may we pursue 
The true and hving way. 

1058 c. M. 

Frailty of life. 

THEE we adore, eternal Name ! 
And humbly own to thee 
How feeble is our mortal frame — 
What dying worms are we! 



BREVITY AND UNCERTAINTY OF LIFE. 635 

2 Our wasting lives grow shorter still, 
As days and months increase ; 

And every beating pulse we tell, 
Leaves but the number less. 

3 The year rolls round, and steals away 
The breath that first it gave : 

Whate'er we do, where'er we be. 
We 're travelling to the grave. 

4 Dangei-s stand thick through all the ground. 
To push us to the tomb; 

And fierce diseases wait around, 
To hurry mortals home. 

5 Infinite joy, or endless wo. 
Attends on every breath; 

And yet how imconcem'd we go. 
Upon the brink of death ! 

6 Waken, Lord, our drowsy sense 
To walk this dang'rous road; 

And if our souls are hurried hence. 
May they be found with God ! 

1059 c. M. 

Man frail — God eternaL 

OGOD, our help in ages past. 
Our hope for years to come. 
Our shelter from the stormy blast. 
And our eternal home : — 

2 Under the shadow of thy throne 
Still may we dwell secure ; 

Sufficient is thine arm alone. 
And our defence is sure. 

3 Before the hills in order stood, 
Or earth received her frame. 

From everlasting thou art God. 
To endless years the same. 



636 TIME AND ETERNITY 

4 A thousand ages, in thy sight, 
Are like an evening gone ; 

Short as the watch that ends the night. 
Before the rising sun. 

5 Time, hke an ever-rolling stream, 
Bears all its sons away ; 

They fly, forgotten, as a dream 
Dies at the opening day. 

6 The busy tribes of flesh and blood, 
With all their cares and fears, 

Are carried downward by the flood, 
And lost in follVing years. 

7 God, our help in ages past. 
Our hope for years to come ; 

Be thou our guide while life shall last, 
And our perpetual home ! 

1060 L. M. 

Earthly things vain and transitory. 

HOW vain is all beneath the skies! 
How transient every earthly bliss ! 
How slejider all the fondest ties 
That bind us to a world like this ! 

2 The evening cloud, the morning dew, 
The with'ring grass, the fading flower, 

Of eai-thly hopes are emblems true — 
The glory of a passing hour. 

3 But though earth's fairest blossoms die. 
And all beneath the skies is vain. 

There is a brighter world on high. 
Beyond the reach of care and pain. 

4 Then let the hope of joys to come 
Dispel our cares, and chase our fears : 

K God be ours, we're travelling home, 
Though passing through a vale of tears. 



BREVITY AND UNCERTAINTY OF LIFE 637 

1061 s. M. 

Plea for paring mercy. 

LORD, let me know mine end ; 
My days, how brief their date ; 
That I may timely comprehend 
How frail my best estate. 

2 My life is but a span ; 

Mine age is naught with thee ; 
And, in his highest honour, man 
Is dust and vanity. 

3 At thy rebuke the bloom 
Of earthly beauty flies ; 

And grief shall hke a moth consiune 

All that deUghts our eyes. 
4r Have pity on my fears ; 

Hearken to my request ; 
Turn not in silence from my tears. 

But give the mourner rest. 
5 spare me yet, I pray; 

Awhile my strength restore, 
Ere I am summon'd hence away, 

And seen on earth no more. 

1062 L. M. 

Tlie souVs best portion. 

ALMIGHTY Maker of my frame, 
Teach me the measure of my days; 
Teach me to know how frail I am. 
And spend the remnant to thy praise. 

2 My days are shorter than a span ; 
A httle point my life appeal's ; 

How frail, at best, is dying man ! 

How vain are all his hopes and fears ! 

3 Yain his ambition, noise, and show ; 
Vain are the cares which rack his mind 

He heaps up treasures mix'd with wo. 
And dies, and leaves them all behind. 



638 TIME AND ETERNITY. 

4 O be a nobler portion mine ! 

My God, I bow before thy throne; 
Earth's fleeting treasures I resign, 

And fix my hope on thee alone. 

1063 .s M. 

Our fathers ; where are iht-y ? 

HOW swift the torrent rolls 
That bears us to the sea; 
The tide that hurries thoughtless souls 
To vast eternity. 

2 Our fathers, where are they, 
With all they call'd their own? 

Their joys and griefs, and hopes and cares. 
And wealth and honour, gone. 

3 God of our fathers, hear, 
Thou everlasting Friend ! 

While we, as on life's utmost verge. 
Our souls to thee commend. 

4 Of all the pious dead 

May we the footsteps trace, 
Till with them, in the land of light, 
We dwell before thy face. 

1064 4th P. M. 886,886. 

The brink of fate. 

LO ! on a narrow neck of land, 
'Twixt two unbounded seas, I stand. 

Secure, insensible: 
A point of time, a moment's space. 
Removes me to that heavenly plare. 

Or shuts me up in hell. 
2 God, mine inmost soul convert, 
And deeply on my thoughtful heart 

Eternal things impress: 
Give me to feel their solemn weight. 
And tremble on the brink of fate, 

And wake to righteousness. 



BREVITY AND UNCERTAINTY 0}< LIFE. 639 

3 Before me place, in dread array, 
The pomp of that tremendous day. 

When thou with clouds shalt come 
To judge the nations at thy bar ; 
And tell me, Lord, shall I be there, 

To meet a joyful doom ? 

4 Be this my one great business here- 
with serious industry and fear 

Eternal bliss to' ensm-e ; 
Thine utmost counsel to fulfil. 
And suffer all thy righteous will. 

And to the end endure. 

5 Then, Saviour, then my soul receive, 
Transported from this vale, to Hve 

And reign with thee above. 
Where faith is sweetly lost in sight. 
And hope in full, supreme delight. 

And everlasting love. 

1065 L. M. 

The inevitable doom. 

TREMENDOUS God, with humble fear, 
Prostrate before thy awful throne. 
The word unchangeable we hear — 
Thy sov'reign righteousness we own. 

2 'Tis fit we should to dust return. 
Since such the will of God Most High ; 

In sin conceived, to trouble born, 
Born to lament, and toil, and die. 

3 Submissive to thy just decree, 

We all shall soon from earth remove ; 
But when thou sendest, Lord, for me, 
O let the messenger be love. 

4 Whisper thy love into my heart ; 
Warn me of my approaching end ; 

And then I joyfully depart. 

And then I to thy arms ascend. 



640 TIME AND ETEENITI 

1066 L. M. 

A peaceful death expected, and prayed for. 

SHRINKING from the cold hand of death, 
I soon shall gather up my feet; 
Shall soon resign this fleeting breath. 
And die, — ^my fathers' God to meet. 

2 Nmnber'd among thy people, I 
Expect with joy thy face to see : 

Because thou didst for sinners die, 
Jesus, in death remember me ! 

3 that, without a ling'ring groan, 
I may the welcome word receive; 

My body with my charge lay down, 
And cease at once to work and live. 

4 Walk with me through the dreadful shade, 
And, certified that thou art mine. 

My spirit, calm and undismayed, 

1 shall into thy hands resign. 

5 No anxious doubt, no guilty gloom, 
Shall damp whom Jesus' presence cheers: 

My Light, my Life, my God is come. 
And glory in his face appears. 

1067 L. M. 

/ am going the way of all the earth. 

PASS a few swiftly fleeting years. 
And all that now in bodies live 
Shall quit, Uke me, the vale of tears, 
Their righteous sentence to receive. 

2 But all, before they hence remove. 
May mansions for themselves prepare 

In that eternal house above ; 

And, O my God, shall I be there? 



DEATH AND RESURRECTION. 
1068 s. M. 

Soletnn thoughts on th^ future. 

AND am I bom to die ? 
To lay this body down? 
And must my trembling spirit fly 

Into a world unknown? — 
A land of deepest shade, 

Unpierced by human thought ; 
The dreary regions of the dead, 
Where all things are forgot! 

2 Soon as from earth I go, 
What will become of me ? 

Eternal happiness or wo 

Must then my portion be : 
Waked by the trumpet's soimd, 

I from my grave shall rise, 
And see the Judge, with glory cro^vn'a. 

And see the flaminof skies ! 

3 How shall I leave my tomb — 
With triumph or regret? 

A fearful or a joyful doom, 

A cm-se or blessing, meet "^ 
Will angel bands convey 

Their brother to the bar? 
Or devils drag my soul away. 

To meet its sentence there ? 

4 Who can resolve the doubt 
That tears my anxious breast? 

Shall I be with the damn'd cast out, 
Or number'd with the blest? 

I must from God be driven. 
Or with my Saviour dwell ; 

Must come at his command to heaven, 
Or else — depaii. to hell! 
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642 TIME AND ETERNITY. 

1069 c. M. 

A voice from the grave. 

HARK ! from the tombs a doleful souna ; 
My ears, attend the cry: — 
Ye living men, come view the ground 
Where you must shortly lie. 

2 Princes, this clay must be yom- bed, 
In spite of all your towers ; 

The tall, the wise, the reverend head, 
Shall lie as low as ours. 

3 Great God ! is this our certain doom, 
And are we still secure ? 

Still walking downward to the tomb, 
And yet prepared no more? 

4 Grant us the power of quick'ning grace, 
To fit our souls to fly ; 

Then, when we drop this dying flesh. 
We '11 rise above the sky. 

1070 L. M. 

Chrisfs presence makes death easy. 

WHY should we start, and fear to die? 
What tim'rous worms we mortals are ! 
Death is the gate to endless joy. 
And yet we dread to enter there. 

2 The pains, the groans, the dying strife, 
Fright our approaching souls away ; 

And we shrink back again to life. 
Fond of our prison and our clay. 

3 would my Lord his servant meet, 

My soul would stretch her wings in haste, 
Fly fearless through death's iron gate. 
Nor feel the terrors as she pass'd. 

4 Jesus can make a dying bed 
Feel soft as downy pillows are. 

While on his breast I lean my head. 
And breathe my life out sweetly there. 



DEATH AND RESURRECTION. 643 

1071 C. M. 

Death of children. 

THY life I read, my gracious Lord, 
With transport all divine; 
Thine image trace in every word, 
Thy love in every line. 

2 Methinks I see a thousand charms 
Spread o'er thy lovely face, 

While infants in thy tender arms 
Receive the smiling grace. 

3 I take these little lambs, said he. 
And lay them in my breast ; 

Protection they shall find in me, 
In me be ever blest. 

4 Death may the bands of life unloose, 
But can't dissolve my love ; 

Millions of infant souls compose 
The family above. 

5 His words the happy parents hear, 
And shout, with joys divine, — 

Saviour, all we have and are 
Shall be forever thine. 

1072 4th P. M. 886,886. 
The inomentous question, 

AND am I only born to die? 
And must I suddenly comply 
With nature's stern decree ? 
What after death for me remains ? 
Celestial joys, or hellish pains. 
To all eternity. 

2 How then ought I on earth to live, 
While God prolongs the kind reprieve. 

And props the house of clay ? 
My sole concern, my single care, 
To watch, and tremble, and prepare 

Against that fatal day. 



644 TIME AND ETERNITY. 

3 No room for mirth or trifling here. 
For worldly hope, or worldly fear. 

If life so soon is gone ; 
If now the Judge is at the door, 
And all mankind must stand before 

The' inexorable throne ! 

4 No matter which my thoughts employ 
A moment's misery or joy ; 

But, ! when both shall end, 
Where shall I find my destined place? 
Shall I my everlasting days 

With fiends or angels spend? 

5 Nothing is worth a thought beneath, 
But how I may escape the death 

That never, never dies ! 
How make mine o^vn election sure; 
And when I fail on earth, secure 

A mansion in the skies. 

6 Jesus, vouchsafe a pitying ray; 

Be thou my Guide, be thou my Way 

To glorious happiness. 
Ah ! write the pardon on my heart ; 
And whensoe'er I hence depart. 

Let me depart in peace. 

1073 10th P. M. 8 lines 8s. 

The grave disarmed of its terrors. 

MAN dieth and wasteth away. 
And where is he? — Hark! from the skies, 
I hear a voice answer and say, — 

The spirit of man never dies ! 
His body, which came from the earth. 
Must mingle again with the sod ; — 
His soul, which in heaven had birth, 
Returns to the bosom of God. 



DEATH AND RESURRECTION. 645 

2 No terror has death, or the grave, 
To those who beheve in the Lord — 

Who know the Redeemer can save, 
And lean on the faith of his word : 

While ashes to ashes, and dust 
We give unto dust, in our gloom, 

'I'he Uofht of salvation we trust, 

Wliich hangs like a lamp in the tomb. 

3 Lord God Almighty ! to thee 
We turn, as our solace above ; 

The waters may fail from the sea, 
But never thy fountains of love : 

teach us thy will to obey, 

And sing, with one heart and accord, — • 

He gave, and he taketh away. 

And praised be the name of the Lord. 

1074 c. M. 

Victory over the fears of death. 

OF OR an overcoming faith, 
To cheer my dying hours, — 
To triumph o'er approaching death, 
And all his frightful powers. 

2 Joyful, with all the strength I have. 
My quiv'ring lips should sing, — 

Where is thy boasted vict'iy, Grave? 
And where, Death, thy sting? 

3 If sin be pardon'd, I 'm secure ; 
Death has no sting beside : 

The law gives sin its damning power, 
But Christ, my ransom, died. 

4 Now to the God of victory 
Immortal thanks be paid, — 

Who makes us conqu'rors, while we die, 
Through Christ, our living Head. 



&46 TIME AND ETERNITY. 

1075 L. M. 

Disenibodied saints. 

THE saints who die of Christ possess'd. 
Enter into immediate rest ; 
For them no further test remains, 
Of purging fires and torturing pains. 

2 Who trusting in their Lord depart. 
Cleansed from all sin, and pure in heart, 
The bliss unmix'd, the glorious prize, 
They find with Christ in paradise. 

3 Yet, glorified by grace alone, 

They cast their cro^vns before the thi-one, 
And fill the echoing courts above 
With praises of redeeming love. 

1076 L. M. 

The Christianas parting hour. 

HOW sweet the hour of closing day. 
When all is peaceful and serene, 
And when the sun, with cloudless ray. 
Sheds mellow lustre o'er the scene ! 

2 Such is the Christian's parting hour; 
So peacefully he sinks to rest; 

When faith, endued from heaven with power. 
Sustains and cheers his languid breast 

3 Mark but that radiance of his eye. 
That smile upon his wasted cheek; 

They tell us of his glory nigh, 

In language that no tongue can speak. 

4 A beam from heaven is sent to cheer 
The pilgrim on his gloomy road ; 

And angels are attending near. 

To bear him to their bright abode. 

5 Who would not wish to die like those 
Whom God's own Spirit deigns to bless? 

To sink into that soft repose, 

Then wake to perfect happiness ? 



DEATH AND RESURRECTION 647 

1077 37th P. M. 66,86,88. 
Friends separated for a season. 

FRIEND after friend departs : 
Who hath not lost a friend ? 
There is no union here of hearts 
That finds not here an end : 
Were this frail world our only rest, 
Living or dying, none were blest. 

2 Beyond the flight of time, 
Beyond this vale of death, 

There surely is some blessed clime 
Where life is not a breath, 
Nor Ufe's affection transient fire. 
Whose spares fly upward to expire. 

3 There is a world above. 
Where parting is unknown; 

A whole eternity of love, 
Form'd for the good alone : 
And faith beholds the dying here 
Translated to that happier sphere. 

4 Thus star by star declines, 
Till all are pass'd away. 

As morning high and higher shines. 
To pure and perfect day ; 
Nor sink those stars in empty night, — 
They hide themselves in heaven's own fight 

1078 Vth P. M. 8 lines Ys. 
Blessedness of those who die i?*, the Lord. 

HARK ! a voice divides the sky : — 
Happy are the faithful dead ! 
In the Lord who sweetly die. 

They from all then- toils are freed ; 
Them the Spirit hath declared 

Blest, unutterably blest ; 
Jesus is their great reward, 
Jesus is their endless rest. 



648 TIME AND ETERNITY. 

2 Followed by their works they go, 

Where their Head is gone before ; 
Reconciled by grace below, 

Grace hath open'd mercy's door; 
Justified through faith alone. 

Here they knew their sins forgiven; 
Here they laid their burden down, 

Hallow'd, and made meet for heaven. 

1079 '7th P. M. 8 lines 7s. 

Continued. — The Saviour''s smile. 

WHY should we lament the lot 
Of a saint in Christ deceased ? 
Let the world, who know us not, 

Call us hopeless and unblest: 
When from flesh the spirit, freed, 

Hastens homeward to return. 
Mortals cry, — A man is dead ! 
Angels sing, — A child is born ! 

2 Born into the world above. 
They our happy brother greet ; 

Bear him to tl/e throne of love. 
Place him ut the Saviour's feet : 

Jesus smiles, and says, — Well done! 
Good and faithful servant thou ! 

Enter and receive thy crown; 
Reign wi^h me triumphant now. 

3 Angels catch the' appro\dng sound. 
Bow, sad bless the just award ; 

Hail the heir with glory crown'd. 
Now rejoicing with his Lord, — 

Fuller joys ordain'd to know. 
Waiting for the gen'ral doom, 

When the archangel's trump shall blow- 
Rise, ye dead, to judgment come 



DEATH AND RESURRECTION. 649 

1080 1st P. M. 6 lines 8s. 

L(yi'd Jesus, receive my spirit. 

JESUS, was ever love like thine? 
Thy life a scene of wonder is ; 
Thy death itself is all divine, 

While, pleased thy spirit to dismi:^*, 
Thou dost out of the flesh retire. 
And like the Prince of life expire. 

2 Thy death supports the dying saint ; 
Thy death my sov 'reign comfort be ; 

While feeble flesh and natm-e faint. 

Arm with thy mortal agony ; 
And fill, while soul and body part, 
With life, immortal life, my heart. 

3 let thy death's mysterious power, 
With all its sacred Aveight, descend, 

To consecrate my final hour, — 

To bless me with thy peaceful end : 
And, breathed into the hands dinne. 
My spirit be received with thine. 

1081 s. M. 

Let me die the death of the righteous. 

OFOR the death of those 
Who slumber in the Lord ! 
be Uke theirs my last repose, 
Like theirs my last reward. 

2 Their bodies in the ground. 
In silent hope, may He, 

Till the last tnunpet's joyful sound 
Shall call them to the sky. 

3 Their ransom'd spu-its soar. 
On wings of faith and love. 

To meet the Saviour they adore. 
And reio^n with him above. 



650 TIME AND ETERNITY. 

4 for the de^h of those 
Who slumber in the Lord ! 

be hke theirs my last repose, 
Like theirs my last reward. 

1082 c. M. 

Death gain to the faithful, 

¥HY should our tears in sorrow flo^i 
When God recalls his own, 
And bids them leave a world of wo, 
For an immortal crown? 

2 Is not e'en death a gain to those 
Whose life to God was given ? 

Gladly to earth their eyes they close, 
To open them in heaven. 

3 Their toils are past, their work is done, 
And they are fully blest; 

They fought the fight, the vict'ry won, 
And entered into rest. 

4 Then let our sorrows cease to flow ; 
God has recall'd his own; 

But let our hearts, in every wo. 
Still say, — Thy will be done. 

1083 L. M. 

The end of that man is pea^e. 

HOW blest the righteous when he dies ! 
When sinks a weary soul to rest ! 
How mildly beam the closing eyes ! 

How gently heaves the' expiring breast ! 

2 So fades a summer cloud away ; 

So sinks the gale when storms are o'er: 
So gently shuts the eye of day ; 
So dies a wave along the shore. 

3 A holy quiet reigns around, — 

A calm which life nor death destroys ; 
And naught disturbs that peace profound 
Which his unfetter'd soiil enjoys. 



DEATH AND RESURRECTION. 651 

4 Farewell, conflicting hopes and fears, 
Where lights and shades alternate dwell ! 

How bright the' unchanging morn appears ! 
Farewell, inconstant world, farewell ! 

5 Life's labour done, as sinks the clay, — 
Light from its load the spirit flies. 

While heaven and earth combine to say, — 
How blest the righteous when he dies ! 

1084 CM. 

The death of a pastor. 

TO thee, God, when creatures fail, 
Thy flock, deserted, flies ; 
And on the' eternal Shepherd's care, 
Our steadfast hope relies. 

2 When o'er thy faithful servant's dust 
Thy saints assembled mourn. 

In speedy tokens of thy grace, 
Zion*s God, return ! 

3 The powers of nature all are thine, 
And thine the aids of grace ; 

Thine arm has borne thy churches up, 
Through each succeeding race. 

4 Exert thy sacred influence here, 
And here thy suppliants bless ; 

And change to strains of cheerful praise 
Our accents of distress. 

1085 1st P. M. 6 lines 8s. 

— Whose faith follow. 

HE 'S gone ! the spotless soul is gone, 
Triumphant, to his place above; 
The prison walls are broken down; 

The angels speed his swift remove. 
And, shouting, on their wings he flies. 
And gains his rest in paradise. 



652 TIME AND ETERNITY. 

2 Saved by the merit of his Lord, 
Glory and praise to Christ he gives; 

Yet still his merciful reward 

According to his works receives ; 
And with the seed he sow'd below, 
His bliss eternally shall grow. 

3 Father, to us vouchsafe the grace 

Which brought our friend victorious through ; 
Let us his shining footsteps trace ; 

Let us his steadfast faith pursue ; 
Follow this foU'wer of the Lamb, 
And conquer all through Jesus' Name. 

4 may we all, hke him, believe, 

And keep the faith, and win the prize ! 
Father, prepare, and then receive 

Our hallow'd spirits to the skies. 
To chant, with all our friends above. 
Thy glorious, everlasting love. 

1086 s. M. 

The crowning hour. 

SERVANT of God, well done ! 
Thy glorious warfare 's past ; 
The battle 's fought, the race is won, 
And thou art crown'd at last ; — 

2 Of all thy heart's desire 
Triumphantly possess'd; 

Lodged by the ministerial choir 
In thy Redeemer's breast. 

3 In condescending love. 

Thy ceaseless prayer He heard; 
And bade thee suddenly remove 
To thy complete reward. 

4 With saints enthroned on high. 
Thou dost thy Lord proclaim, 

And still to God salvation cry, — 
Salvation to the Lamb ! 



DEATH AND RESURREOTIOJ^. 653 

6 O happy, happy soul ! 

In ecstasies of praise, 
Long as eternal ages roll, 

Thou seest thy Saviour's face. 

6 Redeem' d from earth and pain, 
Ah ! when shall we ascend, 

And all in Jesus' presence reign 
With our translated friend ? 

1087 10th P. M. 8 lines 8s. 

At rest, and happy. 

HOW blest is our brother, bereft 
Of all that could burden his mind ! 
How easy the soul that has left 
This wearisome body behind ! 
This earth is affected no more 

With sickness, or shaken with pain, 
The war in the members is o'er. 
And never shall vex him again. 

2 No anger, henceforward, or shame, 
Shall redden this innocent clay : 

Extinct is the animal flame. 
And passion is vanish' d away. 

This languishing head is at rest; 
Its thinking and aching are o'er; 

This quiet, immovable breast 
Is heaved by affliction no more. 

3 The lids he so seldom could close. 
By sorrow forbidden to sleep. 

Now seal'd in their mortal repose. 
Have strangely forgotten to weep ; 

The fountains can yield no supplies ; 
These hollows from water are free; 

The tears are all wiped from these eyes, 
And e\dl they never shall see. 



654 TIME AND ETERNITY. 

1088 10th P. M. Sliies 8s. 
Happy death of a sister in the Lord. 

HOSANNA to Jesus on high ! 
Another has enter'd his rest: 
Another has 'scaped to the sky, 

And lodged in Immanuel's breast; 
The soul of our sister is gone, 

To heighten the triumph above ,•* 
Exalted to Jesus's throne, 

And clasp'd in the arms of his love. 

2 How happy the angels that fall 
Transported at Jesus's name ; 

The saints whom he soonest shall call, 
To share in the feast of the Lamb ! 

No longer imprisoned in clay, 

Who next from the dungeon shall fly ? 

Who first shall be summoned away ? — r 
My merciful Lord — Is it I ? 

3 Jesus, if this be thy will. 
That suddenly I should depart. 

Thy counsel of mercy reveal. 

And whisper thy call in my heart ; 

O give me a signal to know 

If soon thou wouldst have me remove. 

And leave the dull body below. 
And fly to the regions above. 

1089 lOth P. M. 8 hues 8s 

Triumphant death of a brother. 

¥EEP not for a brother deceased ; 
Our loss is his infinite gain; 
A soul out of prison released, 

And freed from its bodily chain ; 

With songs let us follow his flight, 

And mount with his spirit above, 

Escaped to the mansions of light, 

And lodged in the Eden of love. 



DEATH AND RESURRECTION. 655 

2 Our brother tlie haven hath gain'd, 
Outflying the tempest and wind ; 

His rest he hath sooner obtained, 
And left his companions behind, 

Still toss'd on a sea of distress, 

Hard toihng to make the blest shore. 

Where all is assurance and peace, 
And sorrow and sin are no more. 

3 There all the ship's company meet, 
Who sail'd with the Saviour beneath ; 

With shouting each other they greet, 
And triumph o'er sorrow and death : 

The voyage of life 's at an end ; 
The mortal affliction is past : 

The age that in heaven they spend. 
Forever and ever shall last. 



1090 9th P. M. Si, 81, Si, Si. 

The dying Christian. 

HAPPY soul, thy days are ending. 
All thy mourning days below ; 
Go, — the angel guards attending, — 

To the sight of Jesus go. 
Waiting to receive thy spirit, 

Lo ! the Saviour stands above ; 
Shows the purchase of his merit. 
Reaches out the crown of love. 

2 Struggle through thy latest passi( \n, 

To thy great Redeemer's breast ; 
To his uttennost salvation. 

To his everlasting rest. 
For the joy he sets before thee, 

Bear a momentary pain; 
Die, to live a life of glory ; 

Suffer, with thy Lord to reign. 



656 TIME AND ETERNITY. 

1091 L. M. 

The grave shall restore its trust. 

UNVEIL thy bosom, faithful tomb ; 
Take this new treasm-e to thy trust; 
And give these sacred rehcs room 
To slumber in the silent dust. 

2 Nor pain, nor grief, nor anxious fear 
Invade thy bounds : no mortal woes 

Can reach the peaceful sleeper here, 
While angels watch the soft repose. 

3 So Jesus slept; — God's dying Son 

Pass'd through the grave, and blest the bed ; 
Rest here, blest saint, till from his throne 
The morning break, and pierce the shade. 

4 Break from his throne, illustrious morn ; 
Attend, earth ! his sovereign word ; 

Restore thy trust— a glorious form — 
Caird to ascend and meet the Lord. 

1092 '7th P. M. 8 lines Is. 
Absent from tlw body — -present mth the Lord. 

LO ! the pris'ner is released, 
Lighten'd of his fleshly load ; 
Where the weary are at rest, 

He is gather'd into God ! 
Lo ! the pain of life is past. 

All his warfare now is o'er : 
Death and hell behind are cast; 

Grief and suflf'ring are no. more. 
2 Join we then, with one accord, 

In the new and joyful song : 
Absent from our loving Lord, 

We shall not continue long ; 
We shall quit the house of clay, 

We a better lot shall share. 
We shall see the realms of day. 

Meet our happy brother there. 



DEATH AND RESURRECTION. 657 

1098 L. M 

Day dawns on the night of the grave. 

SHALL man, God of light and life, 
Forever moulder in the grave ? 
Oanst thou forget thy glorious work, 
Thy promise, and thy power, to save ? 

2 In those dark, silent realms of night 
Shall peace and hope no more arise ? 

No future morning light the tomb, 
Nor day-star gild the darksome skies? 

3 Cease — cease, ye vain, desponding feai*s : 
When Christ, our Lord, from darkness sprang.. 

Death, the last foe, was captive led. 

And heaven with praise and wonder rang. 

4 Faith sees the bright, eternal doors 
Unfold, to make his children way; 

They shall be clothed with endless life, 
And shine in everlasting day. 

5 The trump shall sound — ^the dead shall wake ; 
From the cold tomb the slumb'rers spring; 

Through heaven, with joy, their myriads rise. 
And hail their Saviour and their King. 

1094 c. M. 

(Certainty of the resuri'ection dispels the glooin of the grave 
'"HY do we mourn for dying friends, 
Or shake at death's alarms ? 
'Tis but the voice that Jesus sends, 
To call them to his arms. 

2 Are we not tending upward too, 
As fast as time can move ? 

Nor should we wish the hours more slow, 
To keep us from our love. 

3 Why should we tremble to convey 
Then' bodies to the tomb ? 

There once the flesh of Jesus la^, 
And left a long perfume. 

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658 TIME AND ETERNITI. 

4 The graves of all his saints he blest. 
And soften'd every bed: 

Where should the dying members rest, 
But with then* dying Head? 

5 Thence he arose, ascending high. 
And show'd our feet the way : 

Up to the Lord our flesh shall fly, 
At the great rising day. 

6 Then let the last, loud trumpet sound. 
And bid our kindred rise : — 

Awake, ye nations under ground ; 
Ye saints, ascend the skies. 

1095 c. M. 

Awaking from the dust with shouts of praise. 

THROUGH sorrow's night, and danger's path. 
Amid the deepening gloom, 
We, folFwers of our sufi'Ving Lord, 
Are marchinor to the tomb. 

o 

2 There, when the turmoil is no more, 
And all our powers decay, 

Our cold remains in soUtude 
Shall sleep the years away. 

3 Our labours done, securely laid 
In this our last retreat, 

Unheeded, o'er our silent dust. 
The storms of earth may beat. 

4 Yet not thus buried, or extinc^. 
The vital spark shall lie ; 

For o'er life's wreck that spark shall rise 
To seek its kindred sky. 

6 These ashes, too, this little dust. 

Our Father's care shall keep. 
Till the last angel rise and break 

The long and dreary sleep. 



DEATH AND RESURRECTION. G59 

109G to. M. 

Sown a natural body^ raised a spiritual body. 

AND must this body die — 
This well-wrought frame decay ? 
And must these active limbs of mine 
Lie mouldering in the clay? 

2 Corruption, earth, and worms. 
Shall but refine this flesh. 

Till my triumphant spirit comes 
To put it on afresh. 

3 God my Redeemer lives, 
And ever from the skies 

Looks down, and watches all my dust, 
Till he shall bid it rise. 

4 Array'd in glorious grace 
Shall these vile bodies shine, 

And every shape, and every face. 
Be heavenly and divine. 

5 These lively hopes we owe. 
Lord, to thy dying love : 

may we bless thy grace below- 
And sing thy grace above ! 

6 Saviour, accept the praise 
Of these our humble songs. 

Till tunes of nobler sound we raise 
With our immortal tongues. 

1097 L. M. 

Sown in weakness, raised in glory. 

THE mormng flowers display their sweets, 
And gay their silken leaves unfold, 
As careless of the noontide heats, 
As fearless of the evening cold. 
2 Nipp'd by the wind's untimely blast, 

Parch' d by the sun's directer ray. 
The momentary glories waste, 

The short-lived beauties die away. 



660 TIME AND ETERNITY. 

3 So blooms the human face divine, 
When youth its pride of beauty shows : 

Fairer tlum spring the colours shine. 
And s^Yeeter than the virgin rose. 

4 Or worn by slowly-rolling years, 
Or broke by sickness in a day, 

The fading glory disappears. 

The short-lived beauties die away. 

5 Yet these, new rising from the tomb, 
With kistre brio-hter far shall shine. 

Revive with ever-dui'ing bloom. 
Safe from diseases and decline. 

6 Let sickness blast, let death devour. 
If heaven must recompense our pains ; 

Perish the grass, and fade the flower. 
If firm the word of God remains. 

1098 S. M. 

The pledge of immortality. 

OUR great Creator, God, 
Who built this house of clay, 
Can re-inspire the breathless clod, 

In his appointed day. 
From dust he form'd us man. 

And shall w^e doubt his power ? 
No, surely the Almighty can 
Our moulder'd dust restore. 

2 Who breathed into our earth 

The breath of life divine. 
Can, by a new celestial birth, 

God and the sinner join : 
Thus we the pledge receive 

Of immortahty, 
Sure that our bodies too shall live 

Forever one with thee 



DEATH AND RESURRECTION. 661 

1099 1st P. M. 6 lines 8s. 
In my Jlesh shall I see God. 

I CALL the world's Redeemer mine ; 
He lives who died for me, I know, — 
Who bought my soul with blood divine : 

Jesus shall re-appear below, — 
Stand in that dreadful day unknown, 
And fix on earth his heavenly throne. 
2 Then the last judgment-day shall come ; 

And though the worms this skin devour. 
The Judo'e shall call me from the tomb, 

Shall bid the greedy grave restore. 
And raise this indi\adual me, 
God in the flesh, my God, to see. 
8 In this identic body, I, 

With eyes of flesh refined, restored, 
Shall see that self-same Saviour nigh, 

See for myself my smiling Lord; 
See with inefikble delight. 
Nor faint to bear the glorious sight. 
4 Tlien let the worms demand their prey, 

.The greedy grave my reins consume ; 
With joy I drop my mould 'ring clay. 

And rest till my Redeemer come ; 
On Christ my life, in death rely, 
Secure that I can never die. 

1100 . CM. 

Exulting in the final victory. 

WHEN the last trumpet's awful voice 
This rendmg earth shall shake, — 
When opening graves shall yield their charge, 

And dust to life awake, — 
2 Those bodies that corrupted fell 

Shall incorrupt arise, 
And mortal forms shall spring to hfe 
1 in mortal in the skies. 



G62 TIME AND ETERNrPY. 

3 Behold, what heavenly prophets sung 
Is now at last fulfilFd ; 

And Death yields up his anciei/t reign, 
And, vanquish'd, quits the field. 

4 Let Faith exalt her joyful voice, 
And now in triumph sing : — 

Grave, where is thy victory? 
And where, Death, thy sting ? 

1101 Tth p. M. 8 lines 7s 

Clothed with immortality. 

SPIRIT, leave thy house of clay ; 
Ling'ring dust, resign thy breath ; 
Spirit, cast thy chains away; 

Dust, be thou dissolved in death : — 
Thus the mighty Sa\aour speaks, 

While the faithful Christian dies ; 
Thus the bonds of life he breaks. 
And the ransom'd captive flies. 

2 Pris'ner, long detained below, 
Pris'ner, now with freedom blest, 

Welcome from a world of wo ; 

Welcome to a land of rest : — 
Thus the choh' of angels sing, 

As they bear the soul on high, 
While with hallelujahs ring 

All the regions of the sky. 

3 Grave, the guardian of our dustj 
Grave, the treasury of the skies, 

Every atom of thy trust 
Rests in hope again to rise : 

Hark ! the judgment- trumpet calls — - 
Soul, rebuild thy house of clay ; 

Immortality thy walls. 
And eternity thy day. 



THE DAY OF JUDGMENT. 

1102 4th P. M. 886,886. 
Tokens of thejvdginent a source of joy to the believer. 

HOW happy are the httle flock, 
Who, safe beneath their guardian-rock, 
In all commotions rest ! 
When war's and tumult's waves run high, 
Unmoved, above the storm they he, 
They lodge in Jesus' breast. 

2 The plague, and dearth, and din of war, 
Our Saviour's swift approach declare. 

And bid our hearts arise : 
Earth's basis shook, confirms our hope ; 
Its cities' fall, but lifts us up. 

To meet thee in the skies. 

3 Thy tokens we with joy confess. 
The war proclaims the Prince of peace, 

The earthquake speaks thy power: 
The famine all thy fulness brings. 
The plague presents thy healing wings, 

And nature's final hour. 

4 Whatever ills the world befall 
A pledge of endless good we call, 

A sign of Jesus near : 
His chariot will not long delay ; 
We hear the rumbling wheels, and pray, — 

Triumphant Lord, appear. 

1103 8th p. M. 87,87,47. 
We also shall appear with Him in glory. 

LIFT your heads, ye friends of Jesus, 
Partners in his patience here : 
Christ, to all beUevers precious, 
Lord of lords, shall soon appear : 

Mark the tokens 
Of his heavenly kingdom near. 



6G4 TIME AND ETERNITY. 

2 Sun and moon are both confoundtd, 
Darken'd into endless night, 

When, with angel-hosts surrounded. 
In his Father's glory bright. 

Beams the Saviour, 
Shines the everlasting light. 

3 See the stars from heaven falling ; 
Hark, on earth the doleful cry; 

Men on rocks and mountains calling. 
While the frowning Judge draws nigh: 

Hide us, hide us. 
Rocks and mountains, from his eye ! 

4 With what diff' rent exclamation 
Shall the saints his banner see ! 

By the tokens of his passion, 

By the marks received for me : — 

All discern him : 
All with shouts cry out, — Tis He ! 

5 Lo ! 'tis He ! our hearts' Desire, 
Come for his espoused below ; 

Come to join us with his choir, 
Come to make our joys o'erflow : 

Palms of vict'ry. 
Crowns of glory, to bestoAv. 

1104 5th P. M. 4 lines 7s. 

Signs of approaching judgment. 

IN the sun, and moon, and stars. 
Signs and wonders theie shall be; 
Earth shall quake Avith inward wars. 
Nations with perplexity. 

2 Soon shall ocean's hoary deep, 
Toss'd with stronger tempests, rise; 

Wilder storms the mountains sweep. 
Louder tlumders rock the skies. 



DAY OF JUDGMENT. (565 

3 Dread alarms shall shake the proud, 
Pale amazement, restless fear ; 

And, amid the thunder-cloud, 
Shall the Judge of men appear. 

4 But though from his awful face 
Heaven shall fade, and earth shall fly, 

Fear not ye, his chosen race. 
Your redemption draweth nigh. 

1105 L. M. 

The second advent. 

HE comes ! He comes ! the Judge severe ! 
The seventh trumpet speaks him near; 
His lightnings flash, his thunders roll ; 
How welcome to the faithful soul ! 

2 From heaven angeUc voices sound: 
See the almighty Jesus crown'd : 
Girt with omnipotence and grace. 
And glory decks the Saviour's face. 

3 Descending on his great white throne, 
He claims the kingdoms for his own ; 
The kingdoms all obey his word, 

And hail him their triumphant Lord. 

4 Shout, all the people of the sky. 
And all the saints of the most High ; 
Om* Lord, who now his right obtains, 
Forever and forever reigns. 

1106 c. M. 

Secrete of tlte heart made known. 

AND must I be to judgment brought, 
And answer in that day 
For every vain and idle thought, 

And every Avord I say ? 
2 Yes, every secret of my heart 
Shall shortly be made known, 
And I receive my just desert 
For all that T have done. 



G6G TIME AND ETERNITY. 

3 How careful then ought I to live ; 
With what religious fear; 

Who such a strict account must give 
For my behaviour here. 

4 Thou awful Judge of quick and dead, 
The watchful power bestow; 

So shall I to my ways take heed, — 
To all I speak or do. 

5 If now thou standest at the door, 

let me feel thee near; 

And make my peace with God, before 

1 at thy bar appear. 

1107 S. M. 

Prepare us for that day, 

BEHOLD ! with awful pomp 
The Judge prepares to come; 
The' archangel sounds the dreadful trump, 
And wakes the gen'ral doom. 

2 Nature, in wild amaze. 
Her dissolution mourns ; 

Blushes of blood the moon deface ; 
The Sim to darkness turns. 

3 The living look with dread ; 
The frighted dead arise. 

Start from the monumental bed. 
And lift their ghastly eyes. 

4 Horrors all hearts appal; 

They quake, they shriek, they cry ; 
Bid rocks and mountains on them fall; 
But rocks and mountains fly. 

5 Great God, in whom we live. 
Prepare us for that day : 

Help us in Jesiis to believe, — 
To watch, and wait, and pray. 



DAY OF JUDGMENT. 6G7 

1108 S. M. 

The solemn midnight cry. 

THOU Judge of quick and dead, 
Before whose bar severe, 
With holy joy or guilty dread, 

We all shall soon appear; 
Our caution'd souls prepare 
For that tremendous day, 
And fill us now with watchful care, 
And stir us up to pray : 

2 To pray, and wait the hour. 

That awful hour unknown, 
When, robed in majesty and power, 

Thou shalt from heaven come down, 
The^ immortal Son of man. 

To judge the human race, 
With all thy Father's dazzling train. 

With all thy glorious grace. 

8 To damp our earthly joys. 
To' increase our gracious fears. 

Forever let the archangel's voice 
Be soundinor in our ears 

o 

The solemn midnight cry, — 
Ye dead, the Judge is come ; 

Arise, and meet him in the sky. 
And meet your instant doom. 

4 may we all be found 

Obedient to thy word, 
Attentive to the trumpet's sound, 

And lookinor for our Lord. 
O may we thus ensure 

A lot amono' the blest : 
And watch a moment to secure 

An everlasting^ rest. 



G68 TIME AND ElJlRNITr. 

1109 L. M. 

The dreadful day, 

THE day of wi-ath, that dreadful daj-, 
When heaven and earth shall pass away 
What power shall be the sinner's stay ? 
How shall he meet that dreadful day — 

2 When, shriv'ling like a parched scroll, 
The flaming heavens toQfether roll : 
And, louder yet, and yet more dread. 
Swells the high trump that wakes the dead ? 

3 0, on that day, that wrathful day. 
When man to judgment wakes from clay. 
Be thou, ChrisL, the sinner's stay. 
Though heaven and earth shall pass away. 

1110 C. M. 

The great day of His vrrath. 

¥0 to the men on earth who dwell, 
Nor dread the' Almighty's frown, 
When God doth all his wrath reveal. 
And shower his judgments down. 

2 Sinners, expect those hea\dest showers : 
To meet your God, prepare ; 

For, lo ! the seventh angel pours 
His vial on the air. 

3 Lo ! from their seats the mountains leap : 
The mountains are not found ; 

rransported far into the deep, 
And in the^ ocean drown'd. 

4 Who then shall live and face the throne, 
And see the Judge severe ? 

Wlien heaven and earth are fled and gone, 
O where shall I appear? 

5 Now, only now, against that hour 
We may a place provide ; 

Beyond the grave, beyond the power 
Of hell, our spirits hide : 



DAY OF JUDGMENT. 6()9 

6 Firm in the all-destroying sliock, 

May view the final scene ; 
For, lo ! the everlasting Rock 

Is cleft to take us in. 

1111 8th P. M. 87, 87,47. 
Behold, He cometh I 

LO ! He comes, with clouds descending, 
Once for favoured smners slain ; 
Thousand thousand saints, attending. 
Swell the triumph of his train : 

Hallelujah ! 
God appears on earth to reign. 

2 Every eye shall now behold him 
Robed in dreadful majesty ; 

Those who set at navight and sold him, 
Pierced and nail'd him to the tree, 

Deeply waihng. 
Shall the true Messiah see. 

3 All the tokens of his passion 
Still his dazzling body bears ; 

Cause of endless exultation 
To his ransom'd worshippers ; 

With what rapture 
Gaze we on those glorious scars. 

4 Yea, Amen! let all adore thee, 
High on thine eternal throne ; 

Saviour, take the power and glory ; 
Make thy righteous sentence known : 

Jah ! Jehovah 1 
Claim the kingdom for thine own. 

1112 11th P. M. 76, 76, 77, 76. 
— With the voice of the archangel. 

JESUS, faithful to his word. 
Shall with a shout descend : 
All heaven's host their glorious Lord 
Shall joyfully attend : 



G70 TIME AND ETERNITY. 

Christ shall come with dreadful iioiso 
Lightnings swift, and thunders loud ; 

With the great archangel's voice, 
And with the trump of God. 

2 First the dead in Christ shall rise ; 
Then we that yet remain 

Shall be caught up to the skies, 

And see our Lord a^fain. 
We shall meet him in the air; 

All rapt up to heaven shall be; 
Find, and love, and praise him there, 

To all eternity. 

3 Who can tell the happiness 
This glorious hope affords? 

Joy unutter'd we possess 

In these reviving words : 
Happy while on earth we breathe ; 

Mightier bliss ordain'd to know : 
Trampling down sin, hell, and death. 

To the third heaven we go. 

1113 s. M. 

— And with the trump of God. 

IN expectation sweet, 
We wait, and sing, and pray. 
Till Christ's triumphal car we meet, 
And see an endless day. 

2 He comes ! — the Conqu'ror comes ; 
Death falls beneath his sword ; 

The joyful pris'ners burst their tombs, 
And rise to meet their Lord. 

3 The trumpet sounds, — Awake ! — 
Ye dead, to judgment come ! — 

The pillars of creation shake, 
While hell receives her doom. 



DAY OF JUDGJVxENT. G71 

4 Thrice happy morn for those 
Who love the ways of peace ; 

No night of sorrow e'er shall close, 
Or shade their perfect bliss. 

1114 c. M. 

The dreadful sentence. 

THAT awful day will surely come, 
The' appointed hour makes haste. 
When I must stand before my Judge, 
And pass the solemn test. 

2 Jesus, thou source of all my joys. 
Thou ruler of my heart, 

How could I bear to hear thy voice 
Pronounce the word, — Depart ! 

3 The thunder of that awful word 
Would so toi^ment my ear, 

'Twould tear my soul asunder. Lord, 
With most tormentinor fear. 

o 

4 What, to be banish'd from my Lord, 
And yet forbid to die ; 

To linger in eternal pain. 
And death forever fly ? — 

5 wretched state of deep despair. 
To see my God remove, 

And fix my doleful station where 
I must not taste his love. 

1115 L. M. 

The final conflagration. 

THE great archangel's trump shall sound, 
(While twice ten thousand thunders roar,) 
Tear up the graves, and cleave the ground,. 

And make the greedy sea restore. 
2 The greedy sea shall yield her dead ; 
The earth no more her slain conceal ; 
Sinners shall lift their guilty head. 
And shrink to see a yawning hell. 



672 TIME AND ETERNITY. 

3 But Ave, who now our Lord confess, 
And faithful to the end endure, 

Shall stand in Jesus' righteousness ; — 
Stand, as the Rock of Ages, sure. 

4 We, while the stars from heaven shall fall 
And mountains are on raoimtains hurl'd, 

Shall stand immoved amidst them all, 
And smile to see a burning world. 

5 The earth and all the works therein 
Dissolve, by raging flames destroyed; 

While we survey the awful scene, 
And mount above the fiery void. 

6 By faith we now transcend the skies. 
And on that ruin'd world look down : 

By love above all height we rise. 
And share the everlasting throne. 

1116 c. M. 

The dissolution of all things. 

JESUS, to thy dear wounds we flee ; 
We shelter in thy side ; 
Assured that all who trust in thee 
Shall evermore abide. 

2 Then let the thund'ring trumpet sound ; 
The latest lightnings glare ; 

The mountains melt; the solid ground 
Dissolve as liquid air; 

3 The huge celestial bodies roll 
Amidst the gen'ral fire ; 

And shrivel as a parchment scroll. 
And all in smoke expire : — 

4 Yet still the Lord, the Saviour reigns. 
When nature is destroyed ; 

And no created thing remains 
Throughout the flaming void. 



DAY OF J7JDGMENT. 673 

6 Sublime on his eternal throne, 
He speaks the' almighty word: 

His fiat is obey'd : 'tis done ; 
And paradise restored. 

6 So be it ; let tliis system end ; 

This ruinous earth and skies ; 
The New Jerusalem descend, — 

The new creation rise. 

1 Thy power omnipotent assume ; 

Thy bi-ightest majesty; 
Ajid when thou dost in glory come, 

My Lord, remember me. 

1117 39th P.M. 

The end of things created, 

GREAT God ! what do I see and hear 
The end of things created ; 
The Judge of mankind doth appear. 

On clouds of glory seated : 
The trumpet sounds ; the graves restore 
The dead which they contained before; — 
Prepare, my soul, to meet him. 

2 The dead in Christ shall first arise, 
At the last trumpet's sounding, 

Caught up to meet him in the skies. 
With joy their Lord surrounding : 

No gloomy fears their souls dismay; 

His presence sheds eternal day 
On those prepared to meet him. 

3 Great God ! what do I see and hear ! 
The end of things created : 

Behold the Judge of man appear, 

On clouds of glory seated : 
Low at his cross I view the day 
When heaven and earth shall pass away^ 

And thus prepare to meet him, 

43 



674 TIME AND ETERNITY. 

1118 12th p. M. 76, 76, 78, 76. 

Security of the righteous at the last day. 

STAND the' omnipotent decree ; 
Jehovah's will be done ; 
Nature's end we wait to see, 
And hear her final groan. 
Let this earth dissolve, and blend 

In death the wicked and the just ; 
Let those ponderous orbs descend. 
And grind us into dust : — 

2 Rests secure the righteous man ; 
At his Redeemer's beck, 

Sure to' emerge and rise again. 
And mount above the wreck : 

Lo! the heavenly spirit towers, 

Like flames o'er nature's funeral pyre; 

Triumphs in immortal powers. 
And claps his wings of fire. 

3 Nothing hath the just to lose, 
By worlds on worlds destroy'd : 

Far beneath his feet he ^^ews, 
With smiles, the flaming void ; 

Sees this universe renew'd, — 

The grand millennial reign begun; 

Shouts, with all the sons of God, 
Around the' eternal throne. 

4 Resting in this glorious hope. 
To be at last restored. 

Yield we now our bodies up, 

To eart,hquake, plague, or sword: 

List'ning for the call divine. 

The latest trumpet of the seven. 

Soon our soul and dust shall join. 
And both fly up to heaven. 



CLOSE OP WORSHIP. 



1119 Sd P. M. 4 6s & 2 8s. 

Parting ; — to meet again, 

JESUS, accept the praise 
That to thy Name belongs ; 
Matter of all our lays, 
Subject of all our songs ; 
ITirough thee we now together came, 
And part exulting in thy Name. 

2 In flesh we part awhile. 
But still in spirit join'd. 

To' embrace the happy toil 
Thou hast to each assigned; 
And while we do thy blessed will, 
We bear our heaven about us still. 

3 let us thus go on 

In all thy pleasant ways, 
And, arm'd with patience, run 

With joy the' appointed race . 
Keep us and every seeking soul, 
Till all attain the heavenly goal. 

4 There we shall meet again, 
When all our toils are o'er, 

And death, and grief, and pain, 
And parting are no more : 
We shall with all our brethren rise, 
And see thee in the flaming skies. 

5 happy, happy day. 
That calls thy exiles home ; 

The heavens shall pass away. 
The earth receive its doom : 
Earth we shall view, and heaven, da«?troy'd, 
And shout above the fiery void. 



676 CLOSE OF WORSHIP. 

6 According to his word, 
His oath, to sinners given. 

We look to see restored 

The niin'd earth and heaven; 
In a new world his truth to prove, 
A world of righteousness and love. 

7 Then let us wait the sound 
That shall our souls release, 

And labour to be found 
Of him in spotless peace : 
In perfect holiness renewed, 
Adorn'd with Christ, and meet for Goi 

1120 c. M. 

Separated^ hut inseparable. 

GOD of all consolation, take 
The glory of thy grace ; 
Thy gifts to thee we render back 
In ceaseless songs of praise. 

2 Through thee we now together came. 
In singleness of heart ; 

We met, Jesus, in thy Name, 
And in thy Name we part. 

3 We part in body, not in mind ; 
Our minds continue one ; 

And each to each in Jesus join'd, 
We hand in hand go on. 

4 Subsists as in us all one soul ; 
No power can make us twain ; 

And mountains rise, and oceans roll, 
To sever us in vain. 

5 Present we still in spirit are, 
And intimately nigh ; 

While on the wings of faith and prater 
We to each other fly. 



CLOSE OF WORSHIP. 677 

6 Our life is hid with Chnst in God ; 

Our Life shall soon appear, 
And shed his glory all abroad 

On all his members here. 

1121 . c. M. 

United, — though separated, 

BLEST be the dear uniting love, 
That will not let us part: 
Our bodies may far oflf remove. 
We still are one in heart. 

2 Join'd in one spint to our Head, 
Where he appoints we go; 

And still in Jesus' footsteps tread, 
And show his praise below. 

3 may we ever walk in him, 
And nothing know beside, — • 

Nothing desire, nothing esteem. 
But Jesus crucified. 

4 Closer and closer let us cleave 
To his beloved embrace; 

Expect his fulness to receive, 
And grace to answer grace. 

5 Partakers of the Saviour's grace. 
The same in mind and heart. 

Nor joy, nor grief, nor time, nor place. 
Nor life, nor death can part. 

6 Then let us hasten to the day 
Which shall our flesh restore; 

When death shall all be done away, 
And bodies part no more. 

1122 5th P. M. 4 lines Is. 

Tribute of praise at parting. 

CHRISTIANS, brethren, ere we part, 
Every voice and every heart 
Join, and to our Father raise 
One last hymn of grateful praise. 



678 CLOSE OF \\'0RSH1P. 

2 Though we here should meet no mon>. 
Yet there is a brighter shore; 

There, released from toil and pain, 
There we all may meet again. 

3 Now to thee, thou God of heaven, 
Be eternal glory given : 

Grateful for thy love divine, 
May our hearts be ever thine. 

1123 41st P. M. 87,87,87,87 
Dismission. 

LORD, dismiss us with thy blessing ; 
Bid us now depart in peace ; 
Still on heavenly manna feeding. 

Let our faith and love increase: 
Fill each breast with consolation; 
Up to thee our hearts we raise : 
When we reach our blissful station. 
Then we '11 give thee nobler praise. 
Hallelujah ! 

1124 c. M. 

For a parting blessing, 

NOW may the God of peace and love, 
Who from the' impris'ning grave 
Restored the Shepherd of the sheep. 
Omnipotent to save ; — 

2 Through the rich merits of that blood 
Which he on Calvary spilt. 

To make the' eternal cov'nant sure. 
On which our hopes are built ; — 

3 Perfect our souls in every grace, 
To' accomplish all his will ; 

And all that 's pleasing in his sight 
Inspire us to fulfil. 

4 For the great Mediator's sake 
We every blessing pray ; 

With glory let his Name be crown'd, 
Through heaven's eternal day. 



CLOSE OF WORSHIl'. 679 

1125 5th P. M. 4 lines 7s. 
l^or a general blessing. 

NOW may He who from the dead 
Brought the Shepherd of the sheep, 
Jesus Christ, our King and Head, 
All our souls in safety keep. 

2 May he teach us to fulfil 
Wliat is pleasing in his sight ; 

Make us perfect in his will, 

And preserve us day and night. 

3 To that great Redeemer's praise, 
Who the cov'nant seal'd with blood, 

Let our hearts and voices raise 
Loud thanksgivings to our God. 

1126 8th P. M. 87,87,47. 
For tk^ Spirifs influences, 

COME, thou soul-transforming Spirit/ 
Bless the sower and the seed ; 
Let each heart thy grace inherit ; 
Raise the weak, — ^the hungry feed; 

From the Gospel 
Now supply thy people's need. 
2 may all enjoy the blessing 

Which thy word 's design'd to give ; 
Let us all, thy love possessing, 
Joyfully the truth receive, 

And forever 
To thy praise and glory live. 

1127 8th P.M. 87,87,47. 
For the fulness of peace and joy. 

LORD, dismiss us with thy blessing; 
Fill our hearts with joy and peace ; 
Let us each, thy love possessing. 
Triumph m redeeming grace; 

O refresh us, 
Travelhng thr<*ugh this wilderness. 



680 CLOSE OF WORSHIP. 

2 Thanks we give, and adoration. 
For thy Gospel's joyful sound ; 

May the fruits of thy salvation 
In our hearts and lives abound ; 

May thy presence 
With us evermore be found. 

3 So, whene'er the signal 's given 
Us from earth to call away, 

Borne on angel's wings to heaven, 
Glad the summons to obey, 

May we ever 
Reign with Christ in endless day. 

1128 CM. 

For a blessing on the truth, 

OGOD, by whom the seed is given, 
By whom the harvest blest ; 
Whose word, like manna shower'd from heaven, 
Is planted in our breast ;- — 

2 Preserve it from the passing feet. 
And plimd'rers of the air ; 

The sultry sun's intenser heat. 
And weeds of worldly care. 

3 Though buried deep, or thinly strown. 
Do thou thy grace supply : 

The hope in earthly furrows sown 
Shall ripen in the sky. 

1129 9th P. M. 87, 8?, 87, 87. 

The apostolic benediction, 

MAY the grace of Christ our Saviour, 
And the Father's boundless love, 
With the Holy Spirit's favour. 

Rest upon us from above : 
Thus may we abide in union 

With each other and the Lord ; 

And possess, in sweet communion, 

Joys which earth cannot aflford. 



DOXOL GI ES. 



1130 L. M. 

PRAISE God, from whom all blessings flow ^ 
Praise him, all creatures here below ; 
Praise him above, ye heavenly host ; 
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. 

1131 C. M. 

To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, 
Who sweetly all agree 
To save a world of sinners lost. 
Eternal glory be. 

1132 CM. Double. 

THE God of mercy be adored. 
Who calls our souls from death, 
Who saves by his redeeming word. 

And new-creating breath ; 
To praise the Father and the Son, 

And Spirit all-divine,— 
The One in Three, and Three in One, — 
Let saints and angels join. 

1133 s. M. 

To God, the Father, Son, 
And Spirit, One in Three, 
Be glory, as it was, is now, 
And shall forever be. 

1134 1st P. M. 6 lines 8s. 

IMMORTAL honour, endless fame. 
Attend the' almighty Father's Name: 
The Saviour Son be glorified. 
Who for lost man's redemption died ; 
And equal adoration be. 
Eternal Comforter, to thee ! 



682 DOXOLOGIES. 

1135 2d p. M. 6 lines 8s 

NOW to the great and sacred Three, 
The Father, Son, and Spirit, be 
Eternal praise and glory given. 
Through all the worlds where God is known, 
]3y all the angels near the throne. 
And all the saints in earth and heaven. 

1136 3d P. M. 4 6s & 2 8s. 

TO God the Father's throne 
Perpetual honours raise ; 
Glory to God the Son, 

And to the Spirit praise: 
With all our powers. Eternal King, 
Thy everlasting praise we sing. 

1137 4th P. M. 886,886. 

TO Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, 
The God whom heaven's triumphant host 
And saints on earth adore; 
Be glory as in ages past. 
And now it is, and so shall last 
When time shall be no more. 

1138 5th P. M. 4 lines Is. 

SING we to our God above, 
Praise eternal as his love ; 
Praise him, all ye heavenly host, — 
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. 

1139 6th P. M. 6 lines Ys. 

PRAISE the Name of God most high ; 
Praise him, all below the sky. 
Praise him, all ye heavenly host — 
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost: 
As through countless ages past, 
Evermore his praise shall last. 



DOXOLOGIES. 683 

1140 8tli P. M. 87,87,47 

GREAT Jehovah ! we adore thee, — 
God the Father, God the Son, 
God the Spirit, join'd in glory- 
On the same eternal throne: 
Endless praises 

To Jehovah, Three in One. 

1141 9th P. M. 87, 87, 87, 87. 

PRAISE the God of our salvation ; 
Praise the Father's boundless love; 
Praise the Lamb, our expiation; 

Praise the Sphnt from above, — 
Author of the new creation, — 

Him by whom our sphits live ; 
Undivided adoration 

To the one Jehovah gi\'e. 

1142 10th P. M. 4 lines 8s. 
LL praise to the Father, the Son, 

And Spirit, thrice holy and blest, 
The' eternal, supreme Three in One, 
Was, is, and shall still be addressed. 

1143 12th P. M. 76, 76, 78, 76. 

FATHER, Son, and Holy Ghost, 
Thy Godhead we adore, — 
Join with the celestial host, 

Who praise thee evermore ! 
Live by earth and heaven adored, 

The Three in One, the One in Three ; 
Holy, holy, holy Lord, 
All glory be to thee ! 

1144 17th P. M. 4 lines IOsl 

TO Father, Son, and Spirit, ever blest, 
Eternal praise and worship be addressed; 
From age to age, ye saints, his Name adore. 
And spread his fame, till time shall be no mora 



A' 



T' 



684 DOXOLOGIES. 

1145 19th r. M, 664,664 

10 God— the Father, Son, 
And Spirit — Three in One — 

All praise be given: 
Crown him, in every song; 
To him your hearts belong: 
Let all his praise prolong. 

On earth — ^in heaven. 

1146 25th P. M. '77,87,77,87. 

TO Father, Son, and Spirit, 
Ascribe we equal glory ; 
One Deity, in Persons Three, 

Let all thy works adore thee : 
As was from the beginning, 

Glory to God be given. 
By all who know thy Name bdow. 
And all thy hosts in heaven. 

1147 26th P. M. 76, 76, 76, 76. 

TO thee be praise forever. 
Thou glorious King of kings : 
Thy wondrous love and favour 

Each ransom'd spirit sings : 
We '11 celebrate thy glory. 

With all thy saints above. 
And shout the joyfiJ story 
Of thy redeeming love. 

11 48 27th P. M. 4 lines lis. 

FATHER Almighty, to thee be addressed. 
With Christ and the Spirit, one God, ever 
blest. 
All glory and worship, from earth and from 

heaven. 
As was, and is now, and shall ever be given. 



INDEX OF FIRST LINES. 



Page 

Abba, Father, hear thy child C Wesley 280 

Abraham, when severely tried C. Wesley 4H I 

According to thy gracious word Montgomery 163 

A charge to keep I have C, Wesley 3 13 

A fountain of life and of grace C. Wesley 171 

Again the kind revolving year ^ C. Wesley 620 

A goodly, foimal saint C. Wesley 267 

Ah, how shall fallen man Watts^ altered 189 

Ah, Lord, with trembling I confess C. Wesley 514 

Ah, whither should I go C. Wesley 217 

Alas, and did my Saviour bleed Watts. 94 

All glory and praise to Jesus our Lord C. Wesley 126 

All glory to God in the sky C. Wesley 82 

All glory to the dying Lamb Watts . 94 

All hail ! happy day C. Wesley 74 

All hail the power of Jesus* name Perronet 110 

All praise to Him who dwells in bliss C. Wesley 369 

All praise to our redeeming Lord C Wesley 423 

All praise to the Father, the Son Vnknmcn 683 

All praise to the Lamb! accepted I am ..C Wesley 275 

All praise to the Lord, who rules with C Wesley 626 

All thanks to the Lamb, who gives us C- Wesley 36 

All things are possible to him C. Wesley 293 

All-wise, almighty, and all-good Montgomery 453 

All yesterday is gone PratVs CoL 199 

Almighty God of love . , , C. Wesley 588 

Almighty Maker, God Watts. 46 

Almighty Maker of my frame Steele . 637 

Almighty Spirit, now behold Montgomery 591 

Am I a soldier of the cross Watts. 438 

A nation God delights to bless C. Wesley 615 

And am I bom to die C. Wesley 64 J 

And am I only bora to die C. Wesley 643 

And are we yet alive C. Wesley 421 

And can it be that I should gain C Wesley 268 

.And can I yet delay C. Wesley 258 

And can my heart aspire so high Steele . 281 

And did the Holy and the Just Steele. 84 

And let our bodies part C. Wesley 137 

And let this feeble body fail C. Wesley 574 



686 INDEX TO THE HYMNS. 

Page 

And must I be to judgment brought C. Wesley 665 

And must this body die Watts. 659 

And will the great eternal God Dodil ridge 581 

And wilt thou yet be found 6\ Wesley 514 

Angel of covenanted grace C. Wesley 394 

Angels, from the realms of gloiy Montgomery 77 

Angels our march oppose C. Wesley 432 

Appointed by thee, we meet ..C. Wesley 40 

Are tliere not in the labourer's day J. Wesley 485 

Arise, and bless the Lord Montgomery 1 4 

Arise, great God I and let thy grace Merrick. 588 

Arise, my soul, arise C. Wesley 284 

Anse, my soul, on wings sublime Ch.Psalmody 479 

Arise, my soul, with rapture rise Epis. CoL 358 

Anse, ye saints, ai*ise Anon. 441 

Arm me with thy whole aiTnour, Lord J. Wesley 431 

Arm of the Lord, awake, awake. Put C. Wesley 596 

Arm of the Lord, awake, awake. Thine .. C. Wesley Hf 
As pants the hart for cooling streams . Tate dp Brady 5 IS 

Assembled at thy great command Colly er. 593 

As strangers here below Condcr\s CoL 443 

A stranger in the world below C. Wesley 552 

A thousand -trades divine C. Wesley 63 

Author of faith, eternal Word C. Wesley 262 

Author of faith, to thee I cry C. Wesley 224 

Author of faith, we seek thy face C Wesley 355 

Author of good, we rest on thee Merrick 378 

Author of our salvation, thee C. Wesley 164 

Awake, and sing the song Hammond 8 

Awaked from sin's delusive sleep. Ch. Psalmody 235 

Awake, Jerusalem, awake C. Wesley 1 45 

Awake, my soul, and with the sun Ken.. 358 

Awake, my soul! stretch every nerve Doddridge 494 

Awake, my soul, to meet the day Doddridge 360 

Awake, ye saints, awake Cotterill. 151 

Away, my needless fears C. Wesley 529 

Away, my unbelieving fear C, Wesley 467 

Away with our sorrow and fear C, Wesley 560 

Baptized hito thy name C. Wesley 155 

Because for me the Saviour prays C, Wesley 230 

Before Jehovah's awful throne Watts. . 16 

Before thy mercy-seat, O Lord Bathurst 42 

Behold! I come with joy to do C. Wesley 480 

Behold, O Lord, before thy throne ^ . Steele . 609 

Behold the Christian w^arrior stand Montgomery 431 



INDEX TO THE HYMNS. 687 

Page 

Behold, the heathen waits to know Voke, 586 

Behold the Saviour of mankind iS. Wesley, sen. 86 

Behold, the sen'ant of the Lord C. Wesley 492 

Behold the sure Foundation-stone Watts. 575 

Behold the throne of gi'ace Newton 336 

Behold what condescending love Doddridge 159 

Behold ! with awful pomp Hart. 666 

Being of beings. God of love C. Wesley 32 

Be it my only wisdom here C. Wesley 502 

Beneath our feet, and o'er our head Heher. 202 

Bid me of men beware C Wesley 349 

Blessing and honour, praise and love J. Wesley 68 

Blest are the pure in heart Keble . 299 

Blest are the sons of peace Watts. 412 

Blest be our everlasting Lord C. Wesley 61 

Blest be the dear uniting love C Wesley 677 

Blest be the tie that binds Fatrcett 424 

Blest Comforter diWne - Christ. Lyre 1 17 

Blow ye the ti'umpet, blow C. Wesley 180 

Brethren in Christ, and well beloved C. Wesley 422 

Bright and joyful is the mom Montgomery 78 

^B lightest and best of the sons Heber. 76 

Bright was the guiding star that \ed..^.». Miss Elliott 407 

But can it be that I should prove C, Wesley 308 

By cool Siloam's shady nil Heber. 604 

By faith I to the fountain fly C Wesley 274 

By thy birth, and by thy tears Sir R. Grant 239 

Caird from above, I rise C Wesley 163 

Captain of our salvation, take C.Wesley 376 

Cast on the fidelity C.Wesley 473 

Centre of our hopes thou art C Wealey 425 

Chastised by an indulgent God C. Wesley 392 

Children of the heaveiily King Cemiick 497 

Christ, from whom all blessings flow C. Wesley 420 

Christians, brethren, ere we part H. K. WHiite 677 

Christ, the Lord, is risen to-day C. Wesley 97 

Jome, and let us sweetly join C. Wesley 428 

Oome, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, Honour C. Wesley 156 
Come, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, One ...C. Wesley 279 
Come, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, To wh. . C. Wesley 605 
Come, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, "Whom. C. Wesley 67 

Come, holy, celestial Dove C.Wesley 254 

Come, Holy Ghost, all-quickening fire C.Wesley 330 

Come, Holy Ghost, inspire our songs ... Pra^^'s Col. 83 
Corae, Holy Ghost, our hearts ipspin^ C. Wesley 405 



688 INDEX 10 THE HYMNS. 

Page 

Come, Holy Spirit, heavenly Dove Watts, 120 

Come, humble sinner, in vv^hose breast Jo7ies. 216 

Come, let our souls adore the Lord Steele. 610 

Come, let us anew our journey pursue. With 

vigour arise C Wesley 570 

Come, let us anew our journey pursue, Roll C. Wesley 631 

Come, let us ascend C. Wesley 559 

Come, let us join our cheerful songs Watts. 9 

Come, let us join our friends above C. Wesley 572 

Come, let us join with one accord C Wesley 151 

Come, let us tune our loftiest song West.. 9 

Come, let us use the grace divine C. Wesley 632 

Come, let us who in Christ believe C. Wesley 8 

Come, Lord, and claim me for thine own.. C Wesley 306 

Come, my soul, thy suit prepare Newton 335 

Come, O my God, the promise seal C. Wesley 329 

Come, O my guilty brethren, come C. Wesley 207 

Come, O my soul, in sacred lays Blacklock 53 

Come on, my partners in distress C. Wesley 551 

Come, O ihou aIl-\nctorious Lord C. Wesley 197 

Come, O thou greater than our heart C. Wesley 297 

Come, O thou Traveller unknown C Wesley 387 

Come, O thou universal Good C. Wesley 319 

Come, O ye sinners, to the Lord C Wesley 2 12 

Come quickly, gi'acious Lord, and take C. Wesley 326 

Come, Saviour, Jesus, from above .Byrom 304 

Come, sinners, to the gospel feast C. Wesley 209 

Come, sound his praise abroad Watts. 13 

Come, Spirit, Source of light Beddome 118 

Come, thou Almighty King G. Wesley 21 

Come, thou Desire of all thy saints Steele . i^6 

Come, thou everlasting Spirit C. Wesley 168 

Come, thou Yowwl o^ every hlQ^^mgCts. of Huntingdon b^^ 

Come, thou high and lofty Lord C. Wesley 429 

Come, thou mniscient Son of man C. Wesley 309 

Come, thou soul-transforming Spirit Jay. . . 679 

Come to Calvary's holy mountain Montgomery 208 

Come, weary sinners, come C. Wesley 216 

Come, wisdom, power, and grace divine.. C. Wesley 427 

Come, ye disconsolate Moore . 183 

Come, ye sumers, poor and needy Hart.. 205 

Come, ye that love the Lord Watts. 534 

Come, ye that love the Sariour's name Steele. 10 

Comfort, ye ministers of gi*ace C Wesley 130 

Commit thou all thy griefs J. Wesley 464 

Out me not off, almighty I/>rd C. Wef^y 398 



INDEX TO THE HYMNS. 689 

Page 

Daughter of Zioa, from the dust Montgomery 142 

Day of God ! thou blessed day H. F. Gould 152 

Deathless spiiit, now arise Toplady 40 1 

Deem not that they are blest alone Bryant 445 

Deep are the wounds which shi has made — Steele. 19(» 
Deepen the wound thy hands have made.. C. Wesley 31 1 

Delightful work, young souls to win Straphan 603 

Depth of mercy ! can there be C. Wesley 243 

Did Christ o'er sinners weep Beddnme 228 

Draw near, O Son of God, draw near C Wesley 132 

Dread Jehovah ! God of nations .. T. Gotterill 610 

fc^amest of future bliss Toplady 282 

Encompass'd with clouds of distress Toplady 218 

Enthroned is Jesus now Judkin 111 

Enthroned on high, Almighty Lord HumphHes 121 

Equip me for the war C. Wesley 437 

Ere mountains rear'd their forms Sp. of Psalms 55 

Eternal Beam of Light divine C. Wesley 452 

Eternal depth of love diviue ./. Wesley 62 

Eternal Power, Almighty God Steele . 69 

Eternal Power, whose high abode Watts. 23 

Eternal Source of eveiy joy Doddridge 612 

Eternal Source of joys divine Steele . 46t. 

Eternal Spirit, God of truth T. Cotterill 1 1 6 

Eternal Wisdom ! thee we praise Watts. 47 

Ever fainting with desire C. Wesley 327 

Except the Lord conduct the plan C Wesley 135 

Except the Lord our labours bless Baf hurst 377 

Expand thy wings, celestial Dove C. Wesley 120 

Extended on a cursed ti'ee J. Wesley 88 

Far from my thoughts, vain world, be gone. . . . Watts 150 

Far from these scenes of night Steele . 553 

Far from the world, O Lord Cmcper 384 

Father, at thy footstool see C. Wesley 426 

Father, behold with gracious eyes C Wesley 38 

Father divine, thy piercing eye Doddridge 385 

'father, gloi'ify thy Son C, Wesley 12 1 

Father, hear the blood of Jesus C. Wesley 106 

Father, how \v\&e thy gloiy shines Walts. 60 

Father, I dare believe C. Wesley 252 

Father, if I may call thee so C Wesley 233 

Fatiier, if th'iu miLst reprove C. Wesley 456 

Father, into tliy hands alone C, Wesley 482 

Father, in whom we live C. Wesley 537 

44 



690 INDEX TO THE HYMNS. 

Page 

Father, I stretch my hands to thee C, Wesley 244 

Father, I wait before thy throne Watts. 279 

Father of all, in whom alone C. Wesley 405 

Father of all, whose .J. Wesley 50 

Father of boundless grace C. Wesley 590 

Father of eternal grace C. Wesley 312 

Father of everlasting grace, Be C, Wesley 38 

Father of everlasting grace, Thy C Wesley 280 

Father of heaven, whose love profound . . . Cotterill 44 

Father of Jesus Christ, iiiy Lord, My C. Wesley 264 

Father of Jesus Christ, my Lord, I C. Wesley 385 

Father of Jesus Chiist, the Just C, Wesley 226 

Father of lights, from whom proceeds C. Wesley 193 

Father of lights, thy needful aid C Wesley 450 

Father of me, and all mankind C. Wesley 356 

Father of mercies, bow thine ear Beddome 133 

Father of mercies, condescend Morell. 587 

Father of mercies, in thy word Steele . 403 

Father of mercies, send thy grace Doddridge 618 

Father of our dying Lord C, Wesley 119 

Father of spiiits, hear our prayer Bond. 372 

Father of spirits, nature's God Sp. of Psalms 56 

Father, our hearts we lift C Wesley 80 

Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, Thy C Wesley 683 

Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, One C. Wesley 315 

Father, supply my every need C Wesley 489 

Father, to thee my soul I lift C. Wesley 65 

Flung to the heedless winds Unknown 598 

Forever here my rest shall be C. Wesley 315 

Forever with the Lord Montgomery 563 

Forewarned by my Redeemer's love C. Wesley 401 

Forth in thy name, O Lord, I go C. Wesley 375 

Fountain of lite, to all below C. Wesley 356 

Fountain of mercy, God of love .. . ,Anne Flowerdew 613 

Friend after friend departs Montgomery 647 

From all that dwell below the skies Watts. 13 

From Calvary a cry was heard Cunningham 87 

From every stormy w4nd that blows Slmvell 332 

From Greenland's icy mountains Heber. 584 

From the cross uplifted high Haweis 211 

From whence these direful omens S. Wesley^ jr. 83 

Full of trembling expectation C Wesley 393 

Give me the wings of faith to rise Watts. 556 

Giver and Guardian of our sleep C. Wesley 361 

Giver of concord, Prince of peace C. Wesley 418 



INDEX TO THE HYMN:^. GUI 

Page 

fiSver of peace and unity C. Wesley 4 1 4 

Give to the winds thy tears J. Wesley 465 

Glad was mv heart to hear Montgomery 154 

Glorious thinsfs of thee are spoken Newton 144 

Glory be to God above C. Wesley 4 13 

Glory be to God on high C. Wesley 3 1 

Glory to God on high Hart.. 168 

Glory to God, whose sovereign grace C. Wesley 186 

Glory to the almighty Father Bathnrst 20 

Glory to thee, ray God, this niiiht Ken . . 364 

Glory to thee, thou righteous God C. Wesley 455 

Glory to thee, \/laOse powerfid word C. Wesley 624 

God is a name my soul adores Watts. 70 

God is ^one up on high C. Wesley 100 

Groi is m this and eveiy place C. Wesley 189 

God is my strong salvation ... Montgomery 440 

God is our refuge and defence Montgomery 502 

God moves in a mysterious way Cowper 444 

God of all consolation, take C. Wesley Q7Q 

Gf)d of aU consolation, The C. Wesley 287 

God of all grace and majesty C. Wesley 495 

God of all power, and truth, and grace C Wesley 297 

God of almighty love. C. Wesley 341 

G.)d of eternal truth and grace C. Wesley 310 

God of eternal truth and love C. Wesley 158 

God of love, who hearest prayer C. Wesley 350 

God of my life, through all ray days Doddridge 550 

God of ray life, to thee I call Cowper 451 

God of my life, to thee, My C. Wesley 39] 

God of my life, what just return , . C Wesley ^11 

God of my life, whose gracious power . C. Wesley 455 

God of my salvation, hear C. Wesley 245 

God of my strength, in thee alone Wrangham 461 

God of thine Israel's faithful three C. Wesley 469 

God of unexampled grace C. Wesley 90 

God of unspotted purity C. Wesley 5 15 

God's holy law transgressed Beddonie 177 

Go, preach my gospel, saith the Lord Watts 127 

Go, ye messengers of God Marsden 590 

Grace, 'tis a charming sound Doddridge 173 

Gracious God, my sins forgive C. Wesley 234 

Gracious Redeemer, shake C Wesley 511 

Gracious Spirit, love divme Stocker 1 18 

Grant me within thy courts a place Montgomery 498 

Great First of beings ! mighty Lord Broume 48 

Great God. accept a heart C. Wesley 64 



692 mDEX TO THE HYMN'S. 

Page 

Great God, attend, while Zion sings Watts-. 22 

Great God, beneath whose piercing eye Roscoe 61fi 

Great God, indulge my humble claim Watts 28r) 

Great Gud, let all our tuneful powers . . H e gmbotham 373 

Great Gt)d, now condescend Fellows lo8 

Great God of nations, now to thee The Psalmist 613 

Great God, this hallowed day of thine Steele 148 

Great God, to me the sight afford C. Wesley 63 

Great God, to thee my evening song Steele . 365 

Great God, what do I see and hear Collyer 673 

Great is the Lord our God Watts. 579 

Great Jehovah I we adore thee Goode 683 

Great King of glory, come Francis 578 

Great Ruler «f the earth and skies Steele . 6 15 

Great Shepherd of thy people, hear Newton 26 

Great Source of being and of love Doddridge 141 

Great Spirit, by whose mighty power Harris 1 1 7 

Guide me, O thou great Jehovah W. Williams 493 

Had T the gift of tongues S, Stennett 501 

Hail ! Father, Son, and Holy Ghost C. Wesley ^7 

Hail ! Father, whose creating call S. Wesley, jr, 69 

Hail ! holy, holy, holy Lord C Wesley 66 

Hail ! sacred truth, whose piercing rays .Bapfvit Col. 410 

Hail ! the day that sees him rise C. Wesley 100 

Hail ! thou once despised .lesus Bakewell 1 12 

H ail ! to the Lord's tuioinled Monf gomcry 81 

Hail : to the Sabbath-day Bnlfnch 153 

Happy soul, thy days are ending C. Wesley 655 

Happy soul, who sees the day C. Wesley 273 

Happy the man who finds the grace C. Wesley 178 

Hap]»y the meek, whose gentle breast . . , T/tos. Scolt 500 

Happy the souls to .lesus join'd C. Wesley 553 

Hnrk I a voice divides the sky C. Wesley 647 

Hark ! from the tombs a doleful sound Watts. 642 

Hark! how the gos[)el tnnn pet sounds Medley 442 

Hark ! how the watchmen ciy C. Wesley 432 

Hark! my sold, it is the Loid Cowper 274 

Hjrk ! the glad soimd ! the Saviour comes Doddridge 76 

Hark! tiie heraid angels sing C. Wesley 80 

Hark ! the notes of angels singing Kelly 1 1 

Hark! the snug of jubilee Montgomery 601 

Hark ! the voice of luve anil mercy Francis 92 

Hark I wliat uhmii ilmse holy voices CowtMjd 73 

Hasten, Lord, the ghirious time I^yfe. 59o 

Hasten, sinner, to be wise jP. Scuit 200 



INDEX TO THE HYMKS. 693 

Page 

Hv^dd of the Church triumphant C. Wesley 526 

Hoad of ihe Church, whose Spirit tills... . C Wesley 589 

Hear, gracious God, my humble prayer Steele. 239 

Hearken to the solemn voice C. Wesley 630 

Hearts of stone, relent, relent C, Wesley 204 

Hear what God, the Lord, hath spoken Cowper J 47 

Heavenly Father, sov'reign Lord Salisbury Col 31 

He comes ! he comes ! the .Judj^e severe C. Wesley 665 

He dies I the Friend of sinners dies Walts. 95 

Help, Lord, to whum for help 1 Hy C.Wesley 345 

Help us, O Lord, thy yoke to wear Co'terill 619 

He's gone, the spotless soul is gone C. Wesley 651 

He wills that I should holy be C. Wesley 289 

High on a throne of light, O Lord Doddridge 619 

High on his everlasting throne J. Wesley 134 

Ho! every one that ihiists, draw nigh J. Wesley 212 

Holy, and true, and righteous Lord C Wesley 303 

Holy as thou, O Lord, is none C. Wesley QQ 

Holy Ghost, dispel our sadness Toplady 123 

Holy, holy, holy Lord C, Wesley 68 

Holy Lamb, who thee receive J. Wesley 32 1 

Holy Spii it. Fount of blessing Jiidkin 124 

Hosanna be the cliildren's song Monlgomtry 605 

Hosanna to Jesus on high C. Wesley 651 

How are thy servants blest, O Loi d Addlsoii 621 

How beauteous are their feet Watts. 128 

How blest is our brother, bereft C Wesley 653 

How blest the children of the Lord .. , Sp.of Psalms 618 

How blest the righteous, when he dies Barhauld 650 

How can a sinner know C. Wesley 276 

How do thy mercies close me round C Wesley 528 

How great the wisdom, power, and grace.. Beddmne 173 

How happy are the little fli)ck C. Wesley 663 

How happy every child of grace C. Wesley 552 

How happy, gi'acious Lord, are we C.Wesley 542 

How happy is the pilgrim's lot J. Wesley 562 

How happy the sorrowful man C. Wesley 38 1 

How helpless natiu'e lies Steele. 188 

How large the promise, hjw di\Tne Watts. 155 

How maiiy pass the guiit)^ night C Wesley 627 

How oft have I the Spirit grieved. C. Wesley 254 

H o w oft this wretched heart Steele . 522 

How perfect is thy word Watts 40fi 

How precious is the book divhie Fawcett 407 

I low sad our state by nature is Watts. 194 

Hnw shwil js lo«it sinner in pnin C. Wenh'y 521 



G94 INDEX TO THE HYMNfe 

Page 

How sweetly flowed the gospel's s uind Bfrnnng 172 

How sweet the hour of closmg day Bathurst 646 

How sweet the name of Jesus soimds Newton 177 

How swift the torrent rolls Doddridge 638 

How tedious and tasteless the hours Newton 539 

How tender is thy hand Hastings ^'M 

How vain are all things here below Watts. 474 

How vain is all beneath the skies Pratt- s Col. 636 

Humble, and teachable, and mild C. Wesley 495 

I and my house will sei ve the Lord C. Wesley 374 

^ ask the gift of righteousness C. Wesley 323 

call the world's Redeemer mine C. Wesley 661 

If death our friends and us divide C. Wesley 382 

If human kindness meets return NoeVs Col. 164 

If, Lord, 1 have acceptance found C. Wesley 481 

If, on a quiet sea Unknotvn 467 

If thou impart thyself to me C. Wesley 312 

I know that my Redeemer lives. And C. Wesley 290 

T know that my Redeemer lives, What Medley. 113 

I listen for the voice C. Wesley 277 

I'U praise my Maker while I've breath Watts. 549 

1 long to behold him array'd C. Wesley 568 

I love the Lord : he heard my cries Watts. 525 

I love thy kingdom, Lord Dwight 146 

I love to steal awhile away Mrs, Brown 386 

Immortal honour, endless fame Dryden 681 

I'm not ashamed to own my Lord Watts. 482 

In age and feebleness extreme C. Wesley 400 

In answer to ten thousand prayers C. Wesley 270 

In every time and place C Wesley 492 

In every trying hour Coombs 47 1 

In expectation sweet Anon.. 670 

Infinite excellence is thine Fawcett 37 

Infinite God, to thee we raise C. Wesley 33 

In hope against all human hope C. Wesley 265 

In mercy. Lord, remember me J.F. Herzog 368 

In sorrow I lament *S^. Stennett 240 

Inspirer and Hearer of prayer Tf^vlady 369 

In that sad, memoiable night C WtsUy 160 

In the sun, and moon, and stais Heher 664 

In thy name, O Lord, assembling Kftly 33 

In thy presence we appear — Movrgomery 34 

I nto thy gracious hands I fall J. Wesley 269 

Is there a thing too hard for thee C Wesley 2t,7 

I rlmnk thee, uncreated Snn J- Wesley 481 



mi>EX TO THE HYMNS. 695 

Page 

I the good fight have fought C. Wesley 440 

I thirst, thou wounded Lamb of God J. Wesley 3 1 8 

It is the Lord, who doth not grieve C. Wesley 457 

I want a heait to pray C Wesley 347 

I want a principle within C. Wesley 348 

I would be thine, O take my heait Reed''s Col 222 

I would not live alvvay Muhlenburg 568 

Jehovah, God the Father, bless C. Wesley 352 

Jehovah, God, thy gracious power Dr. Thomson 65 

Jerusalem, my happy home D» Dickson 562 

Jesus, accept the praise C. Wesley 675 

Jesus, all-redeeming Lord C. Wesley 1 65 

Jesus, and shall it ever be Grigg. 483 

Tesus, at whose supreme command C. Wesley 161 

lesus, a word, a look from thee C. Wesley 191 

Fesus Christ, who stands between C. Wesley 262 

Jesus comes with all his grace C. Wesley 308 

Jesus, faithful to his word C, Wesley 669 

Jesus, Friend of sinners, hear C. Wesley 519 

Jesus, from whom all blessings flow C. Wesley 140 

Jesus, fulfil our one desire C. Wesley 425 

Jesus, great Shepherd of the sheep C Wesley 417 

lesus hath died that I might live C. Wesley 316 

Jesus, I fain would find C. Wesley 345 

Jesus, I fain would walk in thee C. Wesley 353 

Jesus, if still the same thou art C. Wesley 236 

Jesus, if still thou ait to-day C. Wesley 191 

Jesus, if thy free giace C. Wesley 522 

Jesus, immortal King, anse Burder 597 

Jesus, in whom the Godhead's rays C. Wesley 351 

Jesus is our common Lord C Wesley 557 

Jesus, kind, inviting Lord C. Wesley 157 

Jesus, let thy pitymg eye C. Wesley 228 

Jesua, Lord, we look to thee C Wesley 419 

Jesus, lover of my soul C. Wesley 234 

Jesus, my Advocate above C. Wesley 105 

.) f'sus, my all, to heaven is gone Cennick 270 

Jesus, my life, thyself apply C. Wesley 320 

Jesus, my Lord, attend C. Wesley 342 

Jesus, my Lord, I cry to thee C. Wesley 313 

Jesus, my Lord, my God Henwood 462 

Jesus, my Saviour, Biother, Friend C. Wesley 344 

Jesus, my strength and righteousness C. Wesley 390 

'f^sus, my strength, my hf)pe C. Wesley 346 

Jesus, my \rA\h, mv wav C. Wesley 293 



696 INDEX TO THE HYMKS. 

Jesus, our best beloved friend Montgomery 343 

Jesus, plant and root in me C Wesley 322 

Jesus, Redeemer of mankind C Wesley 206 

Jesus, Redeemer, Saviour, Lord C Wesley 257 

J esus, shall I never be C Wesley 508 

Jesus shall reign where'er the sau Wotts. 598 

Jesus spreads his banner o'er us R. Park 169 

Jesus, take all the glory C. Wesley 548 

Jesus, the all-restoring Word. C. Wesley 513 

Jesus, the Conqu'ror, reigns . . , C. Wesley 441 

Jesus, the gift divine I know C. Wesley 490 

Jesus, the Lamb of God, hath bled C. Wesley 268 

Jesus, the Life, the Tnith, the Way C Wesley 341 

Jesus, the Lord of gloiy, died Unknown 108 

J esus, the Name hi^h over all C. Wesley 136 

Jesus, the sinner's triend, to thee C. Wesley 247 

Jesus, the sinner^s i»est thou art Toplady 292 

J esus, the word bestow G. Wesley 410 

Jesus, the word of mercy give C. Wesley 131 

Jesus, thine all-\actorious love C. Wesley 323 

Jesus, thou all-redeeming Lord C. Wesley 37 

Jesus, thou art our King C. Wesley 310 

Jesus, thou everlasting King Watts. 12 

J esus, thou soul of all our joys C Wesley 14 

Jesus, thou Source divine Steele. 107 

Jesus, thou sovereign Lord of all C Wesley 333 

Jesus, thy blood and righteousness J. Wesley 110 

Jesus, thy boundless love to me J. Wesley 493 

Jesus ! thy church, with longing eyes Bathtirst 591 

Jesus, thy fai-extended fame C. Wesley 193 

J esus, thy servants bless C. Wesley 133 

Jesus, thy waud'ring sheep behold C. Wesley 129 

Jesus, to thee I now can fly C. Wesley 266 

Jesus, to thee our hearts we lift C. Wesley 527 

J esus, to thee we fly C. Wesley 611 

Jesus, to thy dear wounds we Hec C Wesley 672 

Jesus, united by thy grace C. Wesley 419 

Jesus, was ever love like thine C. Wesley 649 

J esus, we lift our souls to thee Beck . . 159 

J esus, we look to thee C. Wesley 28 

Jesus, we on thy words depend C Wesley 115 

Jesus, we thus obey C Wesley 166 

Jesus, where'er thy people meet Cowper 40 

Jesus, while our hearts are hleeding. Maternal H. B. 383 

Jesus, whose glory's streaming rays J. Wesley 246 

Join all the ffloiions names W^tts. 1 1? 



INDEX TO THE HYMNS. 697 

Page 
J<»iii, all ye ransom'd sons of grace C. Wesley 628 

I amb of God, whose dying love C. Wesley 170 

Leader of faithful souls, and guide C. Wesley 496 

Let all in whom the Spint glows W. Af. Buntmg 414 

Let ail (m earth their voices raise Watts. 17 

Let all wlio truly bear C. Wesley 162 

Let earth and heaven agree C. Wesley 184 

Let eveiy mortal ear attend Watts, 18 1 

Let evo'y tongue thy goodness speak Waits. 59 

Let Goc, who comforts the distressed C. Wesley 585 

Let Him to whom we now behmg C. Wesley 317 

Let not the wise their wisdom boast C.Wesley 261 

Let party names no more Beddome 411 

Let die redeemed give thanks C. Wesley 237 

Let the woi'ld then' vu'tue boast C. Wesley 260 

Let worldly minds the world pursue Newton 479 

Let Zion's watchmen all awake Doddndge 128 

Lift your eyes of faith, and see C. Wesley 558 

Lift up your hearts to things above C. Wesley 426 

Lift your glad voices in triumph on high Ware. 99 

Lift your heads, ye friends of Jesus C. Wesley 663 

Light of life, seraphic fire C. Wesley 353 

Light of the Gentile world, appear C. Wesley 222 

Light of those whose dreary dwelling C. Wesley 221 

Lo ! God is here ! let us adore J. Wesley 28 

Lo! He comes, with clouds descending .. C. Wesley 669 
Long have I seem'd to serve thee, Lord . . C. Wesley 509 

Look unto Chnst, ye nati(ms ; own C. Wesley 184 

Lo ! on a narrow neck of land C. Wesley 638 

Lord, all I am is known to thee Watts. 56 

Lord, aud is thine anger g(me C Wesley 524 

Lord, at thy feet we sinners lie Browne 242 

Lord, dismiss us with thy blessing, Bid Unknown 678 

Lord, dismiss us with thy blessing, Fill. Topladi/s Col. 679 

Lord, fill me with an humble fear C. Wesley 352 

Lord God, the Holy Ghost Montgomery 122 

Lord, how secure and blest are they Watts. 28 \ 

Lord, bow shall sinners dare Steele. 106 

Lord, 1 am thine, entirely thine Dames. 478 

Lord, I approach the mercy-seat Newton 246 

Lord I believe a rest remains C. Wesley 291 

Lord, I believe thy every word C. Wesley 490 

Lord, 1 delight in thee Ryland 543 

Lord, I despair myself to heal C. Wesley 22 U 

Lord, if at thy command C. Wesley 137 



G98 INDEX TO THE HYMN& 

Pago 

Lord, if thou hast bestow'd C. Wesley 481 

Lord, in the morning thou shalt hear Watts. 357 

]^ord, in the strength of grace C. Wesley 476 

Lord, in thy hcuid I lie C. Wesley 484 

l^ord, let Die know mine end Montgomery 637 

Lord of earth, and air, and sea C. Wesley 622 

Lord of hosts, to thee we raise Montgomery 57 9 

Lord of mercy and of might Heher 378 

Lord of my Hfe, O may thy praise Steele. 362 

Lord of the harvest, hear C Wesley 120 

Lord of tlie Sabbath, liear us pray Doddridge 154 

Lord of the wide, extensive main C. Wesley 623 

Lord of the worlds above Watts. 21 

Lord over all, sent to fidtil J. Wesley 486 

Lord, thou hast heard thy servants cry . . Boston Col. 532 

Lord, thou wilt heai' me when I pray Watts. 367 

Lord, visit thy forsaken race Epis. Col. 587 

Lord, we are vile, conceived in sin Watts. 187 

Lord, we believe to us and ours C. Wesley 115 

Lord, we come before thee now Hammond 41 

Lord, when to thee my sinking soul Anon. . 532 

Lord, when we bend before thy throne .PratVs Col. 43 

Lord, while for all mankind we pray Wreford 617 

Lord, whom winds and seas obey C Wesley 621 

Lord, w^ith a grieved and aching heart Beddome 196 

Lo! round the throne a glorious band .Pearsoii's Col, 567 

Lo ! the pris'ner is released C. Wesley 656 

Love divine, all love excelling C. Wesley 300 

Lovers of pleasure more than God C Wesley 209 

Loving Jesus, gentle Lamb C. Wesley 488 

Man dieth, and Avasteth away G. P. Morris 644 

Master, I own thy lawfid claim C. Wesley 478 

May I, throughout this day of thine C. Wesley 153 

May the grace of Christ oiu' Saviour Netoton 680 

Meet and right it is to sing (7. Wesley 19 

Mercy alone can meet my case Montgomery 236 

Messiah, joy of every heart C Wesley 103 

Mighty One, before whose face Bryant 603 

Millions within thy courts have met Montgomery 370 

Mortals, awake, with angels join Medley 75 

My drowsy powers, why sleep ye so Watts. 507 

My faith looks up to thee R. Pahner 350 

My former hopes are fled Cowper 195 

My God, how endless is thy love Watts. 363 

Mv God, I .'Mil thine, what a comfort lii^ ine C Wesley 549 



INDEX TO THE HYMN8. 61)1) 

Page 

My God, I know, I feel thee mine C. Wesley A77 

My God, my God, to thee 1 cry C. Wealey 267 

My God, my life, my love H 'atts. 540 

My God, my portion, and my love Watts. 540 

My God, the spiing of all my joys Watts. 536 

My God, thy service well demands DoddHdge 395 

My gracious Lord, I own thy right Doddridge 485 

My heait is fix'd on thee, my God Wrangham 547 

My hope, my all, my Saviuur thou OldM.K Col. 348 

My Maker and my King Steele . 55 

My opening eyes with rapture see Ejnscopal Col. 357 

My Saviour from the wrath to come C. Wesley 394 

My Saviour, my almighty Friend Watts. 538 

My She[)hei d's mighty aid T. Roberts 544 

My son, know thou the Lord Village Hymns 208 

My soul before thee prostiate lies J. Wesley 256 

My soul, be on thy guard Heath. 437 

My soul, through my Redeemer's care C Wesley 278 

My soul, with humble fervour raise Livingston 278 

My span of life will soon be done Mrs. Cowper 466 

My sutieiings all to thee are known C. Wesley 449 

No need of the sun m that day C. Wesley 561 

Not heaven's wide range of hallow'd space Wes.Mag. 580 

Not here, as to the prophet's eye Conder 26 

Now, even now, I yield, I yield C. Wesley 328 

Now from the altar of our hearts Mason. 366 

Now I have found the ground whereiu J. Wesley 264 

Now is the accepted time Dob ell 198 

Now let my soul, eternal King Heginbotham 409 

Now, Lord, fulfil thy faithful word West. 134 

Now may He who from the dead Newton 679 

Now may the God of peace and love Gibbons 678 

Now to the great and sacred Three Uriknown 682 

Now to the haven of thy breast C. Wesley 459 

O all-creating God C. Wesley 52 

O bless the I^ord, my soul Montgomery 525 

O come, and dwell in me C. We^fley 313 

O conquer this rebellious will C. Wesley 232 

O could I lose myself in thee C Wesley 241 

O disclose thy lovely face C. Wesley 255 

U F'ather Almighty, to thee be addressM .. . Unknown 684 

Of Him who did salvation bring St. Bernard 175 

( > for a closer walk with God Cowper 516 

^O for a faith thnt will not !*hririk HnthurH 343 



700 INDEX TO THK HYMNS. 

Page 

O for a glance of heavenly day Hart. 2i>6 

O for a heart to praise my God C. Wesley 30 1 

O for an overcoming faith Watts. 645 

O for a thousand seraph tongues C. Wesley 533 

O for a thousand Ujngues to sing C. Wesley 7 

O for that flame of living fire Ba/knrst 510 

O for that tenderness of heart C. Wesley 232 

O for the death of those Ckurch Psalmody 649 

Oft I in my heart have said C. Wesley 261 

O glorious hope of perfect love C. Wesley 295 

O God, by whom the seed is given Heber. 680 

O God, bow often hath thine ear.. . Wm. M. Bunting 511 

O God, most merciful and true '. C. Wesley 302 

O God, my God, my all thou art J. Wesley 359 

O God, my hope, my heavenly rest C. Wesley 62 

O God of Bethel, by \\ hose hand Doddridge, atfd 41 

O God, of good the unfathom'd sea /. Wesley 58 

O God of sovereign grace Baptist Col, 589 

O God, our help in ages past Watts. 635 

O God, our strength, to thee our song. .Sp. of Psalms 39 

O God, thou art my God alone Montgomery 473 

O God, thou bottomless abyss J. Wesley 70 

O God, though countless worlds of light. J. D. Knowles 580 

O God, thy faithfulness I plead C. Wesley 457 

O God, thy righteousness we own C. Wesley 609 

O God, to thee we raise our eyes . .. Wilcock's Selec. 454 

O God, to whom in flesh reveal'd C Wesley 190 

O God, unseen, yet ever near Ed. Osier 165 

O God, we praise thee, and confess Patrick 49 

O God, what oif 'ring shall I give J. Wesley 320 

O God, who madest earth and sky Heber. 379 

O happy day that fixed my choice D'yddHdge 272 

O happy, happy place C Wesley 138 

O holy, holy, holy Lord Conder 35 

O how happy are they C. Wesley 272 

O how shall a sinner perform C. ]Vesley 274 

O Jesus, at thy feet we wait„ C W\<ley 325 

O Jesus, full of grace C. Wesley 518 

O Jesus, full of truth and grace, "Shnt^ C. Wesley 517 

O Jesus, full of truth and grace, all C. Wesley 314 

O Jesus, in pity draw near C. Wesley 253 

O join ye the anthems of triumph N >el's Col. 602 

O joyi'ul sound of gospel gi'ace C. Wesley 296 

O King of glory, thy rich giace /. Wesley 436 

O Lamb of God, for sinners slain C, Wesley 249 

U let the pris'ner's mournful cri«^^ C Wesley 354 



INDEX TO THE HYMN'S. 701 

Page 

Lord, another day has Hown H. K. White 372 

O Lord, my best desire tulHl Cmrper 453 

O Lord, our fatliers oft have told Tate Sf Brody blU 

O Lord, our King, how excellent Moid^nmery 4J> 

O Lord, tliy heavenly gi-uce impart Oberlin 37 1 

O Lord, thy work revive HaMings 354 

O love divine, h;)w sv^^eet thuu art C. Wesley 324 

O love divine, what hast thou done C Wesley 8(5 

O love, thy sov'reign aid impart C.\ Vesley 487 

O may thy powerfid word C. Wesley 439 

O might my lot be cast with these C. Wesley 140 

O my offended God C. Wesley 257 

On all the earth thy Spirit shower H. More 126 

Once more, my soul, the rising day Watts. 360 

Once more we come before our God Hart. 30 

On Jordan's stoiTny banks I stand S. Ste?tnett 554 

On thee, each morniug, O my God Anon. . 363 

On this stone, now laid with prayer Pierpont 577 

On thy Church, O Power divine Sp. of Psalms 139 

O render thanks to God above Tate Sf Brady 16 

O SaN-iour, welcome to my heart Baptist Col. 328 

O speak that word again Newton 523 

O Sphit of the living God Montgomery 122 

O Sun of righteousness, arise J. Wesley 238 

O that I could my Lord receive C. Wesley 251 

O that I could repent, O that C. Wesley 192 

O that I could repent, With C Wesley 225 

O that I could revere C. Wesley 231 

O that I were as heretofore C. Wesley 518 

O that my load of sin were gone C. Wesley 307 

O that thou vvouldst the heavens rend C Wesley 227 

O thou eternal Victim, slain C. Wesley 109 

O diou faithful God of love C. Wesley 398 

O thou, from whom all goodness flow^s Haweis 449 

O lh(JU Gf)d of my salvation l7. Wesley 544 

O thou God, who hearest prayer Omder 396 

O thou great God, whose piercing eye.. ..Doddridge 386 

O thou our Saviour, Brother, Friend C. Wesley 355 

O thou that heai'est prayer Pratt's Col. 1 16 

O thou that wouldst not have C. Wesley 238 

O thou, to whom, in ancient time Pierpont 44 

O thou, to whose all-searching sight J. Wesley 489 

O thou, who all things canst control J. Wesley 507 

O thou, who ai't the light Buhner 29 

O thou, who camesl fmm above C Wesley 344 

O thou, who driest the mourner's tear Moore 447 



702 INDEX TO THE UYM:NS. 

Page 

O thou, who hast at thy command Mr9» Cotte HI 484 

thou, who hast our soitows bonie C. Wesley 223 

O thou, who hast spread out the skies. ..H. F. Gould 624 

O thou, v\'ho iu ihe olive shade Hcmans 38 1 

O tliou, whom aU thy saints adore C. Wesley 25 

O thou, whom fain my soul would love C. Wesley 224 

O thou, whom once they flock'd to hear.. . C. Wesley 192 

O thou whom we adore C. Wesley 593 

O thou, whose jnercy hears Steele . 5 J P 

O thou, whose otF'ring on the tree C. Wesley 103 

O th(ni, whose wise, paternal love C. Wesley 400 

O thou, who, when we did complam C. Wesley 530 

O 'tis delight without alloy Watts. 541 

O 'tis enough, my God, my God C. Wesley 512 

Our blest Redeemer Sfu of Psalms 124 

Our children tho'i dost claim Salisbury Col. 157 

Our Father, Gt)d, who art m heaven Judson 334 

Our few revolvii?g years Beddome 634 

Our God is love, aud all his &m^aU . . Bickerstetli' s Col, 412 

Our great Creator, God C Wesley 660 

Our heavenly Father, hear Montgomery 334 

Our Lord is risen fiom the dead C. Wesley 98 

Our old companions in disti'ess C. Wesley 573 

Our sins on Christ, were laid Fawcett 85 

Out of the depths of wo Montgomery 259 

O what amazing words of grace Medley 176 

O what a mighty change C. Wesley 572 

O what delight is this C. Wesley 167 

O what shall I do, my Saviour to praise. .. C. Wesley 275 

O when shall we sweetly remove C.Wesley 569 

O where is now that glowing love Kelly. 510 

O where shall rest be found Montgomery 201 

O who, in such a world as this Monf gomery 448 

O why should gloomy thoughts arise Hastings 215 

9 Wisdom I whose unfading power Heber. 604 

O wondrous power f-f faithful prayer C Wesley 337 

Pass a few swiftly fleeting years C. Wesley 640 

Peace, doubting hear% my God's I am C. Wesley 47^ 

Peace, troubled soul OldM. E. Col 46:j 

Plunged in a gulf of dark despair Watts. 85 

Praise God, from whom all blessings flow Ken. 681 

Praise the God ofoiu* salvation Conder 683 

Praise the name of God, most high Unknown 682 

Praise waits in Ziou, Lord, for thee.. iSir J. E. Smith 42 
Praise ye the Lord, 'tis good to raise Watts. 57 



INDEX TO THE HYMNS. 703 

Page 

Praise ye the Lord, ye immartal Watts . 7'2 

Player is appointed to convey Hart. 33 1 

Pmyer is the soul's sincere desiie Mntgomery 331 

pray without ceasing, pray C. Wesley 43c 

Pj ince ol' peace, conti'ol my will A non. . 311 

Pi-is'uers of hope, arise C. Wesley 326 

Piis'ners of hope, be stioiig, be I)o'd C. Wesley 295 

Piis'ners of hope, lift up your heads C. Wesley 294 

Proclaim the lofty praise Baptist Col. 114 

l^rostrate at Jesus' feet S. Stennett 242 

Prostrate, with eyes of faith, 1 see C. Wesley 248 

Qaicken'd with our immortal Head C.Wesley 329 

Redeemer of mankind C. Wesley 109 

Rejoice in Jesus' bh'th C, Wedey 79 

Rejoice, the Lord is King C Wesley 533 

Return, my soul, enjoy thy rest J, Stennett 152 

Return, my soul, unto thy rest Montgomery 480 

Return, O wanderer, return Colyer 213 

Rise, my soul, and stretch thy wings Seagrave 557 

Rock of ages, cleft for me Toplady 247 

RoU on, thou mighty ocean Pratfs Col. 586 

Salvation ! O the joyful sound Watts. 175 

Saviour, breathe an evening blessing Edmeston 365 

Saviour from sin, I wait to prove C. Wesley 291 

Saviour, I now with shame confess C. Wesley 515 

Saviour, now in me perform C. Wesley 460 

Saviour of all, to thee we bow C. Wesley 423 

Saviour of all, what hast thou done C. Wesley 443 

Sa\nour of men, thy searching eye C. Wesley 389 

Saviour of sinful men C. Wesley 57 1 

Saviour of the sin-sick soul C. Wesley 325 

Saviour, on me die grace bestow C. Wesley 301 

Saviour, Prince of Israel's race C. Wesley 231 

Saviour, see me from above C. Wesley 229 

Sanour, the world's and mine C. Wesley 317 

Saviour, we know thou art C. Wesley 595 

Sanour, when in dust to thee Sir R. Grant 339 

See how great a flame aspires C. Wesley 599 

See how the moniing sun Scott. 361 

See Israel's gentle She])herd stands Doddridge 156 

See Jesus rising from the grave Noel's Col. 102 

See, Jesus, ihy disciples see C. Wesley 27 

See, sinners, in the gospel glass C. Wesley 182 

See the gospel Church secure C. Wesley 143 



704 INDEX TO THE HYMI^b 

Page 

See the Lord, thy Keeper, stand C. Wesley 339 

See where our gi-eat High Piiest C Wesley 108 

Servant of G(jd, well done C. Wesley 652 

Sei^'ants of God, in joyful lays Moufsomery lb 

Shall foolish, weak, short-sighted man CAVealey 71 

Shall 1, fur fear of feeble man J. Wesley 391 

Shall man, O God of iiglit and life Dwigkt 657 

Shepherd divine, our wants relieve C. Wesley 333 

Shepherd of souls, w^ith pitying eye C, Wesley 583 

Show pity, Lord, O Lord forgive Watts. 241 

Shi inking from the cold hand of death C Wesley 640 

Since all the varying scenes of time Hei-vey 447 

Sing praise, the toinb is void Unknown 98 

Sing to the great .Jehovah's praise C. Wesley 632 

Sing we the song of those who stand Montgomery 10 

Shig we to our God above C. Wesley 682 

Simiers, lift up your iiearts C. Wesley 125 

Sinners, obey the gospel word . C. Wesley 211 

Sinners, obey the heavenly call C. Wesley 179 

Sinners, the call obey C. Wesley 611 

Smuers, the voice of God regai'd Fawcett 200 

Sinners, turn, while God is neai' C Wesley 214 

Sinners, turn, why will ye die C Wesley 214 

Softly now the light of day Doane 364 

Soldiers of Christ, arise C. Wesley 433 

Soldiers of Christ, lay hold C, Wesley 434 

Sole Sov'reign of the earth and skies E. Scott 380 

Songs of praise the angels sang Mo^ntgomery 12 

Sou of God, thy blessing gi'ant C Wesley 457 

Sons of God, triumphant rise C. Wesley 169 

Soon may the last glad song arise PratCs Col. 602 

Sovereign of all the worlds on high Doddridge 283 

Sovereign of worlds, display thy power .PratVs Col. 597 

Sovereign Ruler, Lord of ail Raffles 243 

Sow in the mom thy seed Montgomery 132 

Spirit, leave thy house of clay Monfgoynery 662 

Spii it (jf faith, come down C. Wesley 286 

Spii it of holiness C. Wesley 538 

Spirit of tiuth, essential God C. Wesley 407 

Stand the onniipotent decree C. Wesley 674 

Stay, thou insulted Spirit, stay C. Wesley 253 

Still for thy loving-kindness. Lord C. Wesley 483 

Still nigh me, O my Saviour, stand C Wesley 471 

Still un the Lord thy burden roll Pratt's Col. 468 

Submissively, my God Haweis 469 

SuiToundttd by a host of foes C Wesley 438 



INDEX TO THE HYISINS. 705 

Page 

Sweet is the prayer whose holy MartineaxCs Cov. 393 

Sweet is the work, my Gocl, my Kmg Watts. 149 

Sweet was the time when lirst I felt Newton 516 

Talk with us, liOrd, thyself reveal. C. Wedey 536 

Taught l»y our Lord, we will not pray C. Westey 383 

Terrible thought, shall I alone C Wesley 203 

Thank and praise Jehovah's name Montgomery 15 

That awful day will surely come Watts. 671 

That doleful night before his death Hart. 160 

The counsels of redeem in 2: grace S. Stennett 403 

The day of Christ, the day of God C. Wesley 102 

The day of wrath, that dreadful day . . . ... W. Scott 668 

The earth, wuth all her fulness, owns €. Wesley 54 

Thee, in the watches of the night C. Wesley 371 

Thee, Jesus, fu'' of truth and grace C. Wesley 468 

Thee, King of saints, we praise €. Wesley 166 

Thee to laud in songs divine C Wesley 72 

Thee we adore, eternal Name Watts. 634 

The glorious armies of the sky Mrs. Roice 547 

The glorious universe around Montgomery 411 

The God of Abrah'm praise Olivers 564 

The God of harvest praise Montgomery 614 

The God of mercy be adored C. Wesley 681 

The God of nature and of grace Montgomery 48 

The God w^ho reigns on high Olivers 566 

The gospel ! O what endless charms Steele 171 

The great archangel's trump shall sound.. .C.Wesley 671 
The head that once was crown'd with thorns ..Kelly. 101 

The heavenly treasure now we have C Wesley 422 

The King of heaven his table spreads Doddridge 16S 

The Law and Prophets all foretold C. Wesley 585 

The long-lost son, with streaming eyes .-... Unknown 259 

Tlie Lord descended from above Sternhold 51 

The Lord is my Shepherd Montgomery 504 

The Lord is risen indeed Kelly, 96 

The Lord Jehovah reigns Watts. 52 

The Lord my pasture shall prepare Addison 503 

The Lord of earth and sky C. Wesley 633 

The Lord of Sabbath let us praise S. Wesley, jr. 95 

The Lord our God is clothed with might. H. K. While 53 
The moniing flowers display their sweets . S. Wesley, jr. 659 

The nations of the earth Gibbons 595 

The perfect w^orld, by Adam trod Willis. 581 

The power to bless my house C. Wesley 375 

The pra}nng spirit breathe C. Wesley 385 

4r. 



706 INDEX TO THE HYMNa 

Page 

There is a fountain filVd with blood Cow'per \ 74 

There is a glorious world of light Jane Taylor 608 

There is a God — all nature speaks Steele . 45 

There is a land of pure delight IVatts. 554 

There is an hour of peaceful rest Tappan 559 

There seems a voice in every gale ... Mrs. Oprie 46 

The sacred bond of perfectness C. Wesley 413 

The saints who die of Christ possess'd C Wesley 646 

The Saviour, when to heaven he rose Doddridge 127 

The spacious firmament on high Addison 45 

The iSun of righteousness appears S. Wesley^jr, 96 

The Sun of Righteousness on me. C Wesley 38S 

T'le tempter to my soul hath said Montgomery 528 

The thing my God doth hate C. Wesley 305 

The voice of free grace Thursby 1 82 

The wisdom own'd by all thy sons C. Wes ey 266 

They that toil upon the deep Montgomery 622 

Thine, Lord, is wisdom, thine alone J. Wesley 58 

This day the covenant I sign W. M. Bunting 271 

This day the Lord has call'd his own Batkurst 148 

This is the day the Lord hath made . . . Sp. of Psalms 1 50 

This is thy will, I know C Wesley 290 

This slumber from my spirit shake C. Wesley 436 

This stone to thee, in faith, we lay Montgomery 577 

This, this is He that came C Wesley 89 

This, this is the God we adore Hart. 57 

Thou art the Way : to thee alone Doane 1 07 

Though eighteen hundred years are past .. . C. Wesley 194 

Though I have grieved thy Spirit, Lord Watts. 249 

Though nature's strength decay Olivers 565 

Though now the nations sit beneath L. Bacon 594 

Though troubles assail, and dani^ers affright.. 7Vr7r^<97i 444 
Though waves and storms go o'er my head. J. Wesley 470 

Thou' God of all-sufficient grace C. Wesley 306 

Thou God of truth and love C Wesley 415 

Thou God of power, thou God of love .Pearson's Col, 25 

Thou great mysterious God unknown C. Wesley 282- 

Thou hidden God, for whom I groan .... .C. Wesley 190 

Thou hidden love of God, whose height J. Wesley 491 

Thou hidden Source of calm repose C. Wesley 546 

Thou Judge of quick and dead C Wesley 667 

Thou Lamb of God, for sinners slain C. Wesley 250 

Thou Lamb of God, thou Prince of peace ...J. Wesley 451 

Thou, Lord, art God alone C. Wesley 543 

Thou^ Lord, hast blest my going out C Wesley 377 

Thou Lord of life, whose tender. . . Flowers of Poetry 368 



aKDEX to the HYMNa 707 

Page 

Thou, Lord, on whom I still depend C. Wesl-ey 506 

rhoii refuge of my soul Steele 45< 

Thou rock of my salvation C. Wesley 458 

Tliousands, O Lord of hosts, tliis day .. .Alonfsromery 39? 

Thou seest my feel)lencss C IVes/ey 36/ 

Thou scest our weakness, Lord J. Wesley 486 

Thou Shepherd of Israel, and mine C. Wesley 545 

Thou Son of God, wliose flaming eye^J C. Wesley 197 

Thou, the eternal Lord C. Wesley 60 

Thou very paschal Lamb C. Wesley 105 

Thou very present aid C. Wesley 530 

Thou, who hast in Zion laid Mrs. Bulmer 575 

'T^hou, who on the whirlwind ridest.. Pierpont 582 

Thou, whose almighty word Marrintt 592 

Through sorrow's night, and danger's path H. K. While 658 

Thus far the Lord hath led me on Walts. 366 

Thus saith the Lord — 'tis God commaflds.. C. Wesley 131 

Thy ceaseless, unexhausted love C. Wesley 179 

Thy every suff'ring servant, Lord C. Wesley 471 

Thy gracious presence, my God Steele 463 

Thy law is perfect, Lord of light Montgomery 406 

Thv life I read, mv gracious Lord ., S. Steiuiett 643 

Thy loving Spirit,* Lord, alone C Wesley 299 

Thy mercy heard my infant prayer Sir R. Grant 400 

Thy name to me, thy nature grant C Wesley 314 

Thy presence, everlasting God Doddridge 379 

Thy presence, gracious God, afford Faiccett 24 

Thy presence, Lord, the place shall fill C Wesley 340 

Thy way is in the sea Fawcett 499 

Thy word, almighty Lord Mnnfgnmery 408 

Times without numl)er have I pray'd. .. C. Wesley 521 

'Tis Hnsh'd ! so the Saviour said S.Sle?i7ietl 92 

'Tis finish'd ! the Messiah dies .C\ Wesley 92 

To hless thy chosen race Tate S^ Brady d94 

To Father/Son, and Holv Ghost The Unknomi 682 

To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost! Who Watts. 681 

To Father, Son, and S]>irit5 Ascribe C. Wesley 68 i 

To Father, Son. and Spirit, ever blest Lhtknou-ti 68o 

To God the Father, Son . .' J. Wesley 6S1 

To God the Father, Son, And Unknov:v 684 

To God the Father's throne Watts. 682 

To Jesus, our exalted Lord Steele . 167 

To thee be prai«e forever Unknown 684 

To thee, great God of love, I bow C. Wesley 304 

To thee, God, when creatures fail Doddridge 651 

To thee, our God and Saviour Han-eis S83 



708 INDEX TO THE HYMJN'S. 

Page 

To the hills I lift mine eves (/ Wtsley 338 

To us a clriicl ot liopc is born M^ufgome'ty 78 

To us a t liild of royal birth 6'. I VesUy 79 

TreniLM!<i(.m> God, with liiimble tear C. We-siey 639 

'J'ry u>, U God, and search the ground C. Wesley 416 

Unchangeable, almighty Lord C. Wedey 417 

Unved thy bosom, faithlul tomb Watts. 656 

Urge on your rapid course C Wesley 434 

Vain are all terrestrial pleasures Ford. 475 

Vain, delusive world, adieu 1 C. Wesley 476 

Vain man, thy fond pursuits Hart. 203 

Victim divine ! thy giace we claim C. Wesley 1 66 

Vital spark of heavenly flame Pope . 402 

Walk in the light! so shalt thou know B.Barton 500 

WatcJi'd by the world's malignant eye C. Wesley 487 

Watchman, tell us of the night Bowring 600 

Weary souls, that wander wide C. Wesley 207 

We bring no glitt'ring treasures Phillips 6o7 

We, by his Si)irit prove C. Wesley 276 

Weep not for a brother deceased C. Wesley 654 

We have no outward righteousness C. Wesley 263 

We journey through a vale of tears B. Barton 446 

We know, by faith we know C.W ^esley 570 

Welcome, sweet day of rest Watts. 149 

We lift our hearts to thee J. Wesley 362 

What am I, O thou glorious God C. Wesley 271 

What are those soul-reviving strains Pratt's Col. 607 

What glory gilds the sacred page Coicper 404 

What is our calling's glorious hope C. Wesley 289 

What majesty and grace S. Stennett 1 72 

What! never speak one evil word C Wesley 304 

What now is my object and aim C. Wesley All 

What shall 1 do my God to love C. Wesley 185 

What various hindrances we meet Ccu-per 336 

When all thy mercies, O my God Adclis(ni 501 

When death before my sight Steele . 398 

When first the Spirit left the throne JvdJdn 123 

When, gracious Lord, when shall it be C. Wesley 252 

When 1 can read m v title clear Watts. 439 

When Israel, of the Lord beloved : W. l^cott 448 

When Israel out of Egypt came C, Wesley 5 1 

When I survey the wondrous cross :.. Watts. 93 

When fesus left his Father's throne Movtgomery 606 



INDEX TO THE HYMNS. 70!) 

Page 

When Inniruor and disease invade Topf«idy 31)5 

When, my Saviour, sli dl I he C IVe^ley 303 

Wlicn oer the deep u'e rode Aiwn.. 625 

Wlien, O my Saviour, shall it be Dorrington 509 

When on Siuai's to]) I see Montgomery 1 76 

When on the hrink of death Colyer 399 

Wheu power divine in mortal form J. E. Smith 472 

When quiet iu my house I sit C. Wesley 408 

When risiniu: fiom the hed of death Adflhon 219 

Wlien shall I hear the inwanl voice C. IVrs/cy 288 

When shall I see the welcome hour C. IVes/cy 319 

Wlien sliall the voice of siujiinj^ Pratt a Co). 599 

When shall thy love constrain C. Wesley 256 

When the last trumpet's awful voice -X.?A:tr67e//^ '>? CW. 661 

When throuirh the torn sail Hrl)er. 626 

When to the exiled seer were given G. Rohi.yison 576 

Vhere are the dead Mmtgomcry 202 

vVlierefore should I make mv moan C Wmley 380 

Where is the Hebrew's God.^ CAVedey 144 

Where is the Saviour now Bajt. Col. 520 

Where sh.all my wond'rinix soul begin C. Wesley 286 

Wherewith. Lord, shalj I draw neai C Wesley 218 

Which of the monarchs of the earth C. Wesley 504 

While <lead in tresj^asscs I lie C. Wesley 187 

While life prolong's its precious light Diri^rfu 198 

While shepherds watch'd their flocks .. Tnfe ^ Brady 73 

While thee I seek, protecting Mrs.H.M. Williams 373 

While thou art intimately nigh C. Wesley 529 

While through this world we roam Montgomery 555 

While we walk with God in light C.Wesley 430 

While with ceaseless course the sun Newton 630 

Who are these array'd in white C. Wesley 567 

Who in the Lord confide C. Wesley 143 

Who make the Lord of hosts their tower. Mont prnmery 141 
Whom man forsakes thou wilt not leave. .. C. Wesley 220 

Why do we mourn for dying friends Wafts. 657 

Why is my heart with grief oppress'd Wilson'' s Col. 460 

Why not now, my God. my God. C. Wesley 248 

Why, () my souk' why .* Cotton 462 

Why should our tears in sorrow flow. .. Conders Col. 650 

Why should the cliildren of a King Watts. 277 

Why should we boast of time to come M. Wilkes 199 

Why should we lament the lot C. Wesley 648 

Why should we start, and fear to die Watts. 642 

Wilt thou not yet to me reveal C. Wesley 387 

Wisdom ascribe, and might, and praise C. Wesley 628 



no mDEX TO THE HYMJSTS. 

Pa^re 
With glorious clouds encompass d round .. C Wesley 8.*} 

Within thy house, O Lord our God Presb. Col. 24 

With joy we hail the sacr^ day >^. oj Psahis Su 

With joy we lift our eyes Jcrvis. 35 

With joy we meditate the grace Watts. 104 

Witli stately towers Anon.. 139 

With tro^j.ble laden Judkin . 454 

Worship, and thanks, and blessing. ,. C. Wesley 526 

Wo to the men on earth who dwell C Wesley 668 

Would Jesus have the sinner die C. Wesley 91 

Wretched, helpless, and distress'd C. Wesley 250 

Ye faithful souls, who Jesus know C. Wesley 498 

Ye praying souls . rejoice - Medley 338 

Ye ransomVl sinners, liear C. Wesley 298 

Ye servants of God, your Master proclaim . C. Wesley 17 

Yes, from this instant, now, I will C. Wesley 521 

Ye simple souls, that stray J. Wesley 505 

Yes, I will bless thee, O my God Heginhotham 548 

Ye that pass by, behold the Man C Wesley 89 

Ye virgin souls, arise C. Wesley 629 

Ye wretched, starving poor Steele . 210 

Yield to me now, for I am weak C. Wesley 388 

Young men and maidens, raise C. Wesley 18 

Zion stands with hills surrounded Kelly, 146 



INDEX OF SUBJECTS. 



THE FIGURES REFER TO THE HYMNS. 



Ahba, Father, 467, 471, 472, 

474, 82!), 882. 
Abrah.nn, taith of, 027,773,83]. 
Ahrnhnm^ (iod of, 944. 
Abrahfim'ti SOUS, 308. 
AhruhinuH steps, 438, 627. 
Ab^^eut from Goil, 943, 954, 1092. 
Accepted ill Christ, 4o8. 
Accepted time, the, 330, 348. 
AdojAion aud Asfturance, 459, 

479. 
Adopthn^ spirit of, 191, 194, 

470, 039. 
Adoration of Christ, 114, 117, 

157, 741. 
Adoration of God, 27, 31, 38, 

41, 40, 59, 03, 04, 70, 72, 

90, 100, 101, 100, 280, 085, 

088, 905. 
Advent, Christ's first, 118, 130, 

131, 159, 888, 951, 1009, 

1011, 1015. 
Advent^ Christ's second, 1102, 

1103. See Judfjinent, day of. 
Advocate, Clii'ist is our, 40, 

101, 105, 100, 107, 173, 374, 

412, 407, 838. 
Affliction, sanctified, 038, 039, 

057, 000, 75U, 703, 895, 890. 
Agoni/ of Christ, 135, 208, 341, 

038. 
All, Christ died for, 95, 299, 

30G, 301, 372. 
All, Christ is, 323, 503, 530, 

820, 917. 
All ill all, God is, 59, 99, 332, 

343, 399, 593, 908, 909, 917, 

1004. 
All may come to Christ, 348. 
All things are possible, 370, 

487. 
All things are ready, 348, 350, 

365. 



Anchf)r, the soul's, 4.37, 523^ 

589, 789. 
Ancient of days, 944. 
Amjeh, evil, 724, 728. 
Angf^ls, good, 112, 178, 306, 

500, 914. See Song of Aw 

gels. 
Anqrh, ministering, 012, 017, 

018, 074, 075, 850, 851. 
Angela worship Christ, 119. 
Anointed, Christ the, 114, 120. 
Antl-tt/pe, the great, 103. 
Apofitoni/, danger of, 570, 800. 

See Prayer and Intercession^ 

Backsliding, &c. 
Archangels, 27, 31, 112, 920, 

951. 
Arise. See Index to the first 

line of the Hymns. 
Arm of the Lord, 235, 995. 
Arms, the everlasting, 503, 

890. 
Armour, spiritual, 570, 575, 

570, 580, 721, 722, 725. 
Ascension of Christ, 154, 156, 

157, 204, 341. 
Ashamed of Jesus, 813. 
Ask, and receive, 292, 549. 
Assurance, full, 458. 
Atheism confuted, 64, 112. 
Atonement, the, 40, 144, 174, 

177, 178, 300, 422. 
Atonemeni for all, 174, 276. 
Atoning Blood. See Blood. 
Atonlmj Lamb. See Lamb. 
Attributes of God, 40, 64-112. 

See Gitd, Omnipotence, &c. 
Author of faith. See Palth. 
Awake, and sing, 2, 245, 625, 

918, 924. 
Aiooke, daughter of Zion, 229. 
Auxilce from sleep of sin, 305 

389, 427, 729, 853, 861. 



712 



Awnl-e from nightly slumbers, 

597, 599. 
Awake, Jerusalem, 234. 
Awakening and Inviting^ 327- 

359. 
Aioakening desired, 861. 

BacMidi-ng from God, 867-883. 
Backdidlng healed, 868, 871, 

872, 
Balm of Gilead, 357. 
Balm of pardiuiins: love, 292, 

318, 370, 419, 463. 
Bahuy a sovereign, 291, 326, 

402, 405. 
Band of love, 704, 717. 
Banished ones, 838, 872. 
Baptism, of adults and infants, 

253-262. 
Barrenness, spiritual, 381,1056. 
Beauty of holiness. See Holi- 
ness. 
Beauty of youth, 1097. 
Bellcce in Christ, 34, 302, 344, 

347, 480, 490, 542, 726. 
Belieoe, O that I could, 318, 

357, 405. 
Believers, happiness of, 297,306, 

452, 453, 459-479, 900, 923, 

929, 979. 
Believers, how they live and 

die, 703, 705. 
Believers, joy of. See Rejoicing. 
Believers, triumphing, 104, 899, 

'920, 934, 951. 
Believing. See Faith. 
Benefits of Gospel grace, 353. 

See Gospel and Grace. 
Bf'thel, God of, 58. 
BctJdehem, Chiist born in, 125, 

127. 
Bf^fterpart, the, 538, 1047. 
Bible, the. See the Scriptures. 
Birth-day Hymn, 656. 
Blessings of Christ's kingdom, 

118, 126, 127. 
Blindness, spiritual, 407, 415, 

417, 1011. 
Blood of sprinkling, 276, 370, 

433, 434, 442, 468. 
Blood of Christ, atones, 128, 

130, 136, 138, 144, 162, 164, 



INDLX OF SUBJECTS. 



167, 174, 177, 178, 263, 80^, 

326, 362, 383, 385, 419, 450, 

790, 836. 
Blood of Christ cleanseth from 

sin, 159, 162, 187, 309. 
Blood of Christ procures our 

pardon, 579. 
Blood of Christ was shed for 

me, 405. 
Boast not of to-morrow, 331 

333. 
Bond of perfectness, 59, 693, 

695. 
BondAige to sin, 415, 875. 
Born again, 479, 806. 
Born in sin, 309. 
Born of God, 462, 474. 
Bosom ioe, sin, &c., 316, 360, 

580. 
Bosom of Jesus, 417. 
Bow in the cloud, 429, 747. 
Bowing at the feet of Jesus, 6, 

57. 
Botcing before God, 12, 16, 27, 

30, 36, 37, 44, 47, 48, 54, 

59, 61, 62, 64, 100, 327, 683. 
Brand plucked from the burn- 
ing, 476, 877. 
Bread, living, 28, 265, 274, 

826, 832. 
Breast, Jesus', 538, 891, 1102. 
Brevity and uncertainty of life, 

1057-1067. 
Bridegroom's voice, the, 538. 
Burden, bear each other's, 699, 

700, 705, 712. 
I Burdened sinner, 360. 
I"% thy bkth," &c., 395. 

' Calling, our Christian, 480, 

711, 818. 
Culling and election sure, 591, 

696, 1072. 
Calvary, remember, 283, 293, 

345, 370, 412, 581, 743, 753, 

1014. 
Canaan, heavenly, 30, 930, 

931, 941. 
Captain, Christ our, 629, 723^ 

727, 728. 
Captive set free, 57, 235, 818, 

325, 397, 589. 



INDEX OF SUBJECTS. 



Captive «oi/7«, 323. 

Capfirity '\t:d captive, 154, 51 i, 

Carnnl mind, the, 401. 

Coxf out, in no wise, 365, 414. 

Chnjfyi sin, 513. 

Charity aud Benevolence, 1032- 

1036. 
Chart, the Bible is onr, 232. 
Cherubic Legions, 148. 
Cherubim and Seraphim, 72, 

104. 
Chi-/ of sinners, 347, 403, 420, 

481, 480, 862. 
Cliifrl, death of a. See Death. 
Children prayed for. See Bap- 
tism. 
Chruit an example, 451, 454, 

534, 732. 
Chrixt, birth of, 113-127. 
Chrixt crucitied, 34, 133, 306, 

340, 743, 8<J0. 
Ohrint, divinity of, 95, 96, 119- 

123, 125, 128, 129, 133, 138, 

140, 146, 150, 154, 155, 157, 

150, 170, 174, 180. 
Christ, death of, 128-147, 148, 

150, 152, 159. 
Chrixt, delii(ht in, 440, 454, 578. 
Chrint dwells in believers, 410, 

480, 408, 500, 520. 
Chrixt our High Priest, 163, 

171, 177. iSee Priesthood of 

Christ. 
Chrutt reigns in heaven. See 

Rt-ifpi of Christ. 
Chrix't in the midst, 34, 35. 
Chrixt is risen, 148-157, 160. 
Christ, sufferings of, 128-147, 

162, 163. 
Chrixt the desire of nations, 

48, 115, 119, 124, 125. 
Clirixt the Father of eternity, 

122. 
Chritst the life of believers, 284, 

532. 
Chrixt the mighty God, 122. 
Chrixt tb^ sure foundation, 437, 

959, Oty). 
Christi/iii't'/. jiriniitive, 225. 
Ckristittn-. b.>w thev live and 

die, 705, 717, 822.' 



713 



ChriMtmas. See Advent of Christy 

Incnrtiatioit, &.Q. 
Churchy dedication of a, 964- 

071. 
Church exhorted to awake, 2, 

220, 234. 
Church, founded on a rock, 

223, 230. 
Church, laying the corner-stone 

of a, 950-063. 
Church, prayer for the, 213, 

218, 224, -220. 
Church, the, 223-238. 
City, the hi^avenly, 837, 939, 

050, 051. 
Cleansed from aU sin, 159, 162, 

187, 486, 489, 524, 534, 720, 

825, 950. 
Chset, 644-675. See Devotion. 
Come and welcome, 341, 344, 

345, 348, 349, 351, 353. 
Comforter, the, 22, 25, 44, 104, 

150, 181, 182, 180, 102, 109, 

2a), 304, 300, 394, 470, 478, 

479, 623, 836, 974. 
Communion of saints, 691-709. 
Communion with God, 808-024. 
Compassion of Christ, 378, 408, 

753. 
Compassion of God, 01, 360. 
Co) idem nation, no, 445, 446. 
Condescension of Christ, 128, 

424. 
Condescension of God, 77, 107. 
Conferei}ce hymns, 203-222, 

1110-1120. 
Confession of sin, 309, 320, 322, 

415, 443, 857, 1017. 
Confidence in God, 376, 426, 

437, 511, 790. 
Confirming souls, 590. 
Conflagration, the. See Day 

of Judgment. 
Congregation, the, 197, 303. 
Conquering Christian, the, 721- 

741. 
Conqueror, Christ a. 514, 654, 

739, 820. 
Conscience, tender, 579, 584. 
Consecrated hour, the, 624, 647. 
Vntixf^r'ition to God, 366, 451, 

056, 7yO, 803, 804. 



714 



INBEX OF SUBJECTS. 



Consolation, God of, 478, 1120. 
Contrite heart. See Heart. 
Contrite souls, 24. 
Conoersioi,, 207, 313, 314, 374, 

375, 383, 3!»2, 421, 452. See 

Aibtjitutn and Ahsu ranee. 
Convict if til for sin, 327. 
Corner-ntone^ Christ the, 171, 

221, 903. 
Coriier-Htoney laying of a, 959- 

903. 
Country^ heavenly, 491, 920- 

903. 
Conidrif, our, 1020-1031. 
Court*.', eartlily, 6, 15, 24, 29, 

219, 5!»4, b\u^, 019, 005, 808, 

839, 905, 992. 
Court, lieavenly, 928. 
Coveinint hymn, 1054. 
CovciKiiit, the new, 203, 501. 
Covenantimj with Cod, 450, 451, 

455. 
Created for God's glory, 70, 050. 
Creation, design of, 70, 78. 
Creation, the new, 197, 1110, 

1119. 
Creation, works of, 04-112. 
Crt-atar, the great, 07, 78. 
Creature, the new, 507, 532. 
CroHH endured, the, 029, 034, 

055, 7U), 749, 925, 958. 
Crow of Christ, 141, 145, 140, 

147, 158, ISO, 211, 207, 280, 

340, 342, 351, 381, 395, 409, 

054, 723, 812, 883. 
CroHH taken up, 171, 570, 053, 

707. 
Grown of thorns, 139, 145, 153, 

l;/8, 340. 
Croicn, the Christian's, 099, 

701, 707, 710, 717, 727, 852, 

925, 947, 958. 
Croicn, the Redeemer's, 10, 

158, 175, 170. 
Crowns of glory, 741, 930,1103. 
Crucified afresh, 342, 355, 373. 
Crucified, the, 34, 3O0. 
Crucifijcifm of Christ, 51, 133, 

130-147, 370, 528, 753. 

Darhnas, spiritual, 190, 313, 
814,375,415,417,429,079,092. 



Dai/ of Christ, 159, 708, 
Dat/ of feeble things, 753. 
JJoy of God, 159. 
Vai/ of Grace. See Grace, 
Uai/ of Judgment. See Judg' 

ment. 
Dead in sin, 310, 324. 
Dead to the world, oS9<. 
Jjeath and Resmrection, 1008- 

1101. 
Death decreed, 1058, 1059 
Drat/i eternal, 327, 334,335,338, 

339, 355, 393, 404, 1058, 

Hm;S, 1072. 
Death of a brother, 1089, 1092. 
Defit/i of a child, 037, l()7l. 
Drnth of a friend, 040, 1077. 
Drdtfi of a pastor, 1084. 
Ueath of a sister, 1088. 
Jjrath of a widow, 1088. 
Death of a youth, 1097. 
Jjrath, pi-ei)aration for, 007,009, 

007, 009, 070, 075, 9oO, 1001, 

lOOO, 1009, 1072. 
Death, spiritual. See Natural 

Depravity. 
Death, sting of, 7, 148, 757, 

1074, 1100. 
Death, triumphant, 1074, 1070, 

1078. 
Death, universality of, 1005, 

1072. 
Dettth very near, 338. 
Death, victorv over, 7, 148, 757, 

951, 1074,^078, 1080, lO90, 

1097, 1100. 
Deliverance from trouble, 884- 

897. 
Deliverer, the great, 470, 7G3, 

820. 
Depravity, natural, 309-320. 
Depravity, total, 309, 320. 
Dexpair, against, 303, 304, 369, 

398, 455, 403, 404. 
Deti^Ktir by the law, 295. 
Despair, gulf of, 131. 
Despair, land of, 329. 
Despair of healing, 304. 
Devotion, closet, 044-075. 
Devotion, family, 594-043. 
Devotion, public. See Wor'ihip, 
Devotion to God, 310, 053, 051 



INDEX OF SUBJEOTS. 



715 



Diadem, royal, 15S, 175. 
Dlitdem, saint's, 17G. 
Di>icon*iolate souls, SO-t. 
Disw/utiou of all things, 1018, 

1110, 1115, lllG, 1119. 
Dw'unty of Christ. See Christ. 
Dove, celestial, 19G, 421, 4G2, 

G79, 698, 853. 
Dove, heavenly, 191, 199, 429, 

8G9. 
Dojcologies, G81-G84. 

EnrKest love, 452, 858. 
Eantf^fit, the Christian's, 462, 

47i«, 548. 
Eheuczcr, mine, 901. 
E<h'ii, loss of, 141. 
Edrii regained, 696, 716. 
Efevtioit sure. See ddUng. 
Exjummila, our, 10, 452. 
Ethio/j white, the, 305. 
El-en i)i(j hymns, 88, 606, 611- 

618,' GIS, GS7, 890. 
Ererlnstunj Father, the, 72. 
Ei'er/o.stiny God, the, 82, 1059. 
Excellence, iutinite, 21, 50. 

Fnhiting sinner, 890, 543. 
Vaith, arms of, 44(), 9o3. 
Faith, author of, 372, 404, 435, 

590. 
Faith, fight of, 721-741. 
Faiih, gift of, 872, 426. 
Faith, hope, chaiity, 213, 700, 

716, 910. 
Faith in Christ, 321, 427. 
Faith, light of, 375. 
Faith, living, 375. 
Faith, mighty, 482, 485, 488, 

489, 515, 733, 787, 790, 844. 
Faitii, prayer for, 828, 875, 404, 

405, 477, 515, bVi^, 809. 
Faith, shield of, 726, 733. 
Faith, simple, 364. 
Faith working by love, 297, 

436, 430, 5'Jl, 716, 867. 
Faith/ ulnesis of God, 439, 765, 

768, 796. 
Fall of man, 309, 814, 341, 345. 
Fallen, the, 312, 314. 
FoUinu from grace, 570, 575, 

866. 



Family devotion. See Demtion, 
Family worship. See Worship 
Fa^t^, public, 1017-1022. 
Father, God a, .61, 72, 73, 77, 

404, 554, 000. 
Father, my, 394, 396, 466, 469, 

472, 475, 763. 
Father of lights, 320, 754. 
Fear, godly, 575, 576, 579, 729, 

810, 87i. 
Fear, needless, 780, 781, 892. 
Frait of love. See Lore Fraat. 
Fra>,t, the Gospel, 301,348, 349, 

984. 
Felloiofhip, Christian, 691, 709, 

711, 712, 717, 720, 844. 
Fiery darts, 580, 726, 736. 
Fiery trials, 558, 786, 787, 790. 
Fire, celestial, 544, 547, 572, 

016, 713, 717, 1002. 
Firmament, the spacious, 65, 71. 
First love, 452, b58, 873. 
Flock of Christ, 7, 590, 622, 

701, 916. 
Fold of Christ, 7, 979, 985. 
Followers of Christ, bo^ 696, 

711), 802. 
Folhnciwj of Cliiist, 756, 803 

825, 840, 911. 
Forhearance of God, 403, 862, 

880. 
Fonjiveuess desired, 461, 872. 
FortjiceneHfi of shis, 52, 53, 177, 

305, 307, 316, 344, 347, 353, 

459, bm, 884, 925. 
Forijiring desired, 387, 39S, 

400, 401, 465. 
For<jivi)a/ God, a, 392. 
Form of godliness, 814, 857. 
Formal religion, 443, 857. 
Forwke thee, never, 891. 
Foinitaiiij Chiist a, 284, 593, 

862. 
Fonntaiii for guilt and sin, 269, 

290, 303, 328, 456, 524. 
Fountain of living waters, 294, 

345, 352, 827, 948. 
Frailty, human, 1061, 1062. 
Free grace. See Grace. 
Fretdom from sin, 480, 511, 

518, 520, 521, 531, 540, 546, 

583, 768. 



INDEX OF SUBJECTS. 



716 



Friend, Chi'ist a, 302, 851, 906, 1 

934. 
Fneud of sinners, 140,141, 14«, 

219, 408, 410, 415, 426, 476, 

569, 755, 875, 913. 
Fuurnd hymns, 332, 333, 1057, 

1101. 

Gentiles, light of the, 308, 367, 

369, 982. 
Gift of (iod, the, 827. 
Gift unspeakable. See Un- 

spenhaUe. 
Gh,omij thoughts, 359, 365," 367. 
Gliwirs of Christ, 1, 6, 407. 
Glories of God, 67, 68, 77, 88, 

94, 96, 105, 107, 475. 
Glories of heaven, 928, 936. 
Glory of God in creation, 71, 

78, 91, 109. 
Glory of God should be our aim, 

5()7, 799, 830. 
(r/^/r^/ of Christ, 407,1105-1117. 
Glory of saints in heaven, 933, 

947. 
Glnr^j of the Lord, 202, 425. 
Glory to God, 21-23, 40, 46, 

112-114, 116, 127, 280, 303, 

30S, 607, 696, 1043. 
Glory to the risen Saviour, 153, 

155, 157. 
Gloryimj in Chi'ist, 433, 812, 

813, 914 
Go in peace, 283, 357, 412, 875. 
God, att ibutes of. See Attri- 
butes. 
God, compassion of, 91, 360. 
God. condescension of, 77, 107. 
God, desires after, 908, 9(.)9. 
God, eternity of, 82, 97, 108, 

1059. 
(?oc/ glorified Ly us, 21 8, 570, 84 6, 
God, goodness of, 70, 87, 89, 

93, 98, 103, 298, 320, 585, 

915, 1023, 1025. 
God, grandeur of, 27, 67, 70. 
Sod, irreatness of, 26, 69, 96, 

lOS; 239, 260, 475, 610, 625, 

965, 1024, 1027, 1030. 
God, majesty of, 74, 77, 79, 87, 

376. 
Ood, wisdom of. See Wisdom. 



God, works of. See Works. 
God is incomprehensible, 106, 

108, 109. 
God is in this place, 30, 36. 
God is light, 37, 87, 320, 587, 

679, 680. 
God is love, 31, 40, 42, 302, 

356,360,366, 403,425,582.693. 
God is unchangeable, 108, 702. 
God unknown, 313, 314, 372, 

471, 829, 702. 
God unsearchable, 90, 106, 108, 

128. 
God of love, 504, 582. 
God of salvation, 80, 405, 784, 

914. 
God our Father. See Father. 
God, there is a, 64-112. 
God with us, 94, 95. 
Godlu fear, 729, 871. 
Gospd day, 308, 453, 988. 
Goxj)el feast. See Feast. 
Gospel grace, 288, 348, 349, 

352, 353. 
Gospel, spread of the, 202, 

205, 207-210, 999, 1(K)2. - 
Gospel, success of the, 972-1006. 
^'o^^W-v joyful sound, 118, 143, 

2o5, 2.S5-2S7, 294, 300, 329, 

492, 6.S6, 741. 
Grace, alluiing, 375, 424. 
Graee, free, 284, 303, 352, 407. 
Grace, growing in, 797, 852. 
Grace, pardoning, 404. 
Grace, i)lenteous, 388. 
Grace, riches of, 129, 219. 
Grace, saving, 316, 372. 
Grace, sovereign, 307, 323. 
Guardian caie, God's, 601,606, 

607, 610, 615, 617, 630, 644, 

786, 795, 819, 1030. 
Guide, God a, 87, 604, 615, 635, 

700, 751, 832, 879. 
Guide, Christ a, 169, 170, 230, 

557, 581, 740, 786, 1072. 
Gnide, the Holy Sjjirit a, 182, 

188, 194, 198, 199, 232. 

Hallelujah to God, 46, 11 % 919, 

966, 1006. 
IJallelujah to God and thM 

Lamb, 303, 938. 



INDEX OF SUBJECTS. 



717 



ffammer of God's word, 318,828 
Ilniqnnenfioi believers. 2U7,3<)G, 

'\ryl, 453, 459, 473, 900, 923, 

02(1, 929. 
Hdjtjjhiesh' of heaven, 499, 925- 

958. 
Bi'd/ing power, 33, 315, 319, 

321, 322. 

Eearuuf the Word, 28, 32, 38, 

43, 57, GO, 195, 213, G80. 
Wart, broken, 309, 340, 353, 

3G8, 74G, 748. 
Heart, a contrite, Gl, 184, 373, 

379, 5CK), 710, 9G7. 
Heart, deceitful, 397, 754. 
Hearty frozen, 374. 
heart, new, 3(J9, 320, 500, 7G5. 
Heart of flesh, 3G4, 382, 579. 
i/e><f/-f of stone, 313, 328, 340, 

342, 373, 379, 380, 382, 383, 

SS5 41'^ oSS 
Heart] pure, 159, 1G8, 500, 700. 
Heart, siugleness of, 184. 
Heart, stubborn, 318, 370, 374, 

381, 4(.)1, 420. 
Heart, Ftupid, 374. 
Heart, mifeeling, 374. 
Heathen, the, 972-lOOG. 
Heacen desciibed, 925, 930, 

931, 93G, 939, 942. 
Heacent, prospect of, 925-958. 
Hell dieaded, 334, 339, 570, 

lOGS, 1U72, 1115. 
Help implored, 528, 543, 575, 

75-i, 7(30. 
Hi<ih Priest, Christ our, 163, 

171, 177, 2SG, 3U0, 420. 
Hindrances, 3 GO, 471, 558, 829. 
Holiness, beauty of, 19. 
Holiness desired, 39, 55, 225, 

322, 481,499,501,502,1011. 
Holiness, highway of, 448. 
Holiness, necessity of, 80, 263, 

392. 
Holiness of believers, 480, 481, 

705. 
Holiness oiQoA, 100. 
Holiness, spirit of, 25, 905. 
Boly, holy, holy, 31, 33, 44, 46, 

72, 101, 104, 911, 946. 
Holy Ghost desired, 42, 181, 

183, 679, 815, 853, 1011. 



Holy Ghost, reeelTe the, 84. 
Holy Spirit, the, 181-2C3. See 

Adoption, Comforter, Guide ^ 

Sanctifier, Witness. 
Hope of heaven, 491, 492, 926. 
Hope of perfect love, 159, 491. 
Hosanna to Christ, 118, 244. 

2G4, 1012, 1088. 
Hosannas, 191, 245. 
//ojwc of clay, 1092. 
House of God, longing for the, 24. 
Humility, 100, 502, 835, 8G6. 
Hunyerinq after righteousness, 

390, 499. 
Huuijry souls, 301, 349, 350, 

499, 598. 

Idol, the Christian's, 773, 821, 

829, 869. 
ril go to Jesus, 359. 
lma<je of God desired, 415, 487, 

532, 696, 715, 802, 820. 
Immortality, 569, 900, 923, 933, 

941, 952, 958, 1100. 
Impenitence, 318, 327, 373,1107, 

1110. 
Tmportunity, 374, 553, 649-651, 

854. 
Impoteiicy, human, 99, 81 ^. 328, 

326, 552, 762. 
Inbred sin, 496, 539, 540, 768. 
Incarnate God, the, 129, 133, 

302, 323, 341. 
Incarnation of Christ, 113-127, 

302, 904. 
Insinration, 617, 685. 
Intercession of Chiist, 2, 158- 

180, 444, 474. 

Jehovah, great I A]M, 592, 914, 

935. 
Jerusalem, the new, 812, 887, 

927, 939, 942, 961, 1116. 
Jemis, the name, 1, 6, 18, 35, 

169, 219, 306. 
Jesus the same, 371, 890, 405, 

788, 796, 865, 993. 
Jews, the, 980-982. 
Joyful sound, the, 143, 300,301, 

686, 741, 973, 975. 
Joys of holiness and heaven, 
I 465. 



718 



CSTDEX OP SUBJECTS. 



Jubilee, song of, 1004. 
Jubilee, year of, 300. 
Jadymuit, day of, IGl, 336, 339, 

GOT, 10,31, luGl, 10G8, 101)9, 

1102-1118. 
Justijication by faith, 432-458. 

See Fonjicf'ne-s>i. 
/t.stijied by faith, 347, 438. 

Keep me, G31, 881-883. 
Kept by Christ, 5G2, 888, 917. 
King, Christ a, 1, 514, 71G, 

739, 887, 899, 900. 
King of glory, 154, 156, 157, 

100, 446, 643, 730, 882, 964. 
King of kuigs, 158, 607, 618, 

632. 
King of saints, 154, 217. 
Kingdom of Christ, 202, 303, 

390, 592, 9-'9. 
Kingdom of God, 200, 201,214. 
Kinrjdom of grace, 127, 390, 537, 

5JS7, 592, ii29. 
Knock at mercy's door, 401, 429. 
Knocking at the door of the 

heart, 3. 
Knonli'dge oi Qhvi&t, 371, 800. 
Knoidedge of God, 93, 128, 372, 

504. 
Knoidedqe of ourselves, 320. 

See Natural Deijracity. 

Labour of love, 217, 21b, 567, 

572. 
Labourers in the vineyard, 207, 

216, 221, 818. 
Xaw/6, atoning, 138, 300, 306, 

440, 443, 477. 
Lamb, behold the, 132,219,302. 
Lamb, extol the, 5, 22, 300. 
Lfiinb, follow the, bb, 696, 716, 

802. 
Lunh, gentle, 824. 
Lamb, glory to the, 8, 115, 142, 

147, 341, 914. 
Lainb of God, 302, 412, 444, 

458, 756, 824. 
Lamb, spotless, 144, 174, 276, 

405. 
lAtmb, snpper of the, 10,274,719. 
Lamb, thanks to the, 49. 
L<imb that was slain, 40, 134, 



144, 176, 264, 268, 276, 277, 
3U5, 412, 800, 933, 936, 938, 
946, 973. 
Lamb, the, 869, 904. 
Lamb, the Paschal, 164, 178, 

267. 
L<imb, worship the, 18, 128, 929. 
Lamb, worthy the, 4, 7, 180. 
Land of rest, 928, 930, 931, 942, 

945, 950, 953, 956, 957. 
Law of liberty, 507. 
Law of love, 507. 
Lno, perfect, 507, 681, 854, 857. 
Le(aler, Christ a, 837, 838, 933. 
Leaven, 53, 530. 
Length, breadth, &c., of love, 

129, 307, 517, 528, 538, 857. 
Leper, the, 317, 442, 583. 
Lf'prosy of sin, 3(i9, 316. 
Liberti/ from sin, 496, 509, 520, 

537. 
Life uncertain, 1057-1067. 
Light at evening time, 747. 
Liglit, Christ is, 307, 587. 
Light, let there l)e, 988. 
Light of the world, 369, 818. 
Light, spiritual, 747, 999. 
Litany versified, 72, 395, 564, 

659, 664. 
Licing to Christ, 464, 567, 799, 

816, 830. 
Load of sm, 318, 325, 344, 386, 

421, 510. 
Loathsome and vile, 317, 320, 

399, 509. 
Longintj for Christ and God, 

4S4,'492, 526, 756. 
Look and be saved, 305. 
Look on me. Lord, 316, 379, 

380, 395. 
Lord of all, 73, 175. 
L(jrd of glory, 170. 
Lord'fi prayer, the, 554, 555. 
Lord's supper, the, 263-28:3, 

814. 
Love, cold, 10, 147. 191, 
Love desired, 3u7, 366, 412, 

424, 5t)0, 507, 524, 526, 538. 
Love divine, 131, 133, 134, 146. 

498, 538, 587. 
Love, excellence of, 498, 53(i 

910. 



EST)EX OF SUBJECTS. 



iotjo, first, 452, 858, 873. 
^t-e, inhiiite, 87, 298, 307. 
Love of Christ to sinners, 134, 

1S7, 141, 145, 140, 148, 306, 

G53. 
Love of God to man, 298, 30G, 

307. 
Loie the chief ^ace, 538, 910. 
Xo;c to Christ, 218, 282, 454. 
Love to the Church, 237. 
Lhce-feuHi hymns, 304,710-720. 
Locei-H of pleasure, 347. 
LnkeucarmneHH deplored, 867. ! 

Majesty of God, 72, 74, 77, 79, 

92, 97. 
MajcHty of Christ, 96. 
Mider, my, G7, 81, 1062. 
Man of jpief, 128, 139. 
Matnia, the hidden, 164,273 826. 
Maiiffiontf, heavenly, 636, 736, 

952. 
Ma/'uiertt, hymns for, 965, 

1037-1046. 
Marriaije-feant, the, 440, 699, 

7lMJ. 
Mart/'i ciic>ice, 538. 
Master, Jesus a, 1, 6, 18, 414, 

626, S./3, .^90, 925. 
MeoHH of j^n-ace, 814, 857. 
Meeknes^t desired, 500, 703, 732, 

756, 843. 
Mercien of God, 15, 73, 307, 

398, 611, 623, 845, 890. 
Mercy of God, 15, 17, 87, 88, 

89, 96, 98, 103, 334:, 401, 4U3, 

407, 416, 418, 419, 421, 437, 

445, 789, 87U. 
Mercy of Christ, 130, 342, 358, 

38U, 391, 414. 
Mercy->ieat, 45, 56, 60, 252, 396, 

4<J(», 4U6, 551, bb^, lU20. 
Merits of Christ, 174, 549, 920. 
Milleinnal reign. See Jieif/)i. 
Mind of Christ desired, o^Jo, 

695. 
Ministers and the ministry, 203- 

222, 653-6,">5. 
Minxionnry liyniUS, 972-1006. 
Uvruinij liymus. See Family 

Jjccotion. 
Mourners blessed, 1, 390. 



719 



Mourners comforted, 57, 419, 

429, 589, 619, 876, 
Mourning for sin, 3i)6, 370, 396. 
Music'' s charms, 13. 
My>>trry of love, 371, 445, 538. 
Mystery of Providence, 745, 759, 

841. 
Mystery of redemption, 91, 128, 

445. 
Myyftery of the Trinity. See 

Trinity. 

Name, how excellent is thy, 70, 

71. 
JVf/«/e of Christ, dear to sinnerg, 

306, 321, i:>bO, 914. 
Name of God, 93, 96, 475. 
Name of Jesus, 18,218, 270,278, 

3U6, 310, 321,376, 917,1000. 
Nation, our, 1U24-1029. 
Nation, prayer for the, 1031. 
Natu'ity of Christ, 113-127. 
Netc birth. See Born ayoin. 
Neic- Year's day, l047-l056. 
No)te but Jesus, 341. 
Now is the time, 341, 343, 348, 

410, 546. 

Oath of God, 356. 
Omnipotence of God, 66, 65, 75, 

78, 86, 88, 223, 376, 4(X). 
Omnipresence of God, 83, &4, 

98, 103, 313. 
Omniscience of God, 83, 84, lOiS 

239, 513. 
Oracles of God. See the ScTip 

tures. 
Outcasts, gather the, 51, 308, 

342, 365. 

Pain is sweet when, 903. 
Palms of victory, 708, 93G» 958, 

1103. 
Panoply of God, 580, 721, 725 
Pardon of sin desu'ed, 53, 62, 

259, 315, 322, 392, 398, 421, 

447, 581, 877. 
Pardon flows from Christ, 129, 

132, 133, 284, 285, 344, 352, 

353, 974. 
Pirdon jjrovided for sinners, 

129, 266, 329, 743. 



720 



INDEX OF SUBJECTS, 



Bxrdcn purchased by Christ, 

827, 743. 
Pardon sure, 363, 473. 
Rirent^, duty of, G15, 622, 626, 

627, 62U, 754, lull. 
Rirtlmj hymn, the, 221, 222, 

982, 11 li). 
Paschal lamb. See Lamb. 
Pa.^toral hyums, 203-222. See 

Ministers and the Miubitry. 
Patience aud resiguation, 740- 

7%. 
Ptace, family, 633, 634. 
Peace in Christ, 49, 343, 352, 

364, 392, 412. 
Peace in the Church, 39, 694. 
Peace, national, 1027, l028. 
Pace on earth, 40, 113, 114, 

116, 125. 
Peace, prince of. See Prince. 
Peace with God, 392, 865, 875, 

1109. 
Pkarl of great price, 523, 530. 
Pentecv.sU day of, 196. 
Pentecostal, 182. 
Perfect bliss, 526. 
Perfect charity, 695, 732. 
Perfect cure, a, 322. 
Perfect day, the, 194, 423, 512, 

532, 584, 842. 
Perfect grace, 211. 
Perfect heart, a, 494. 
Perfect holiness, 225, 460, 494, 

496, 512, 575, 714. 
Perfect in love, 415, 439, 543. 
PerffH liberty, 531. 
Perfect love, 35, 53, 272, 282, 

481, 484, 485, 491, 494, 49S, 

515, 517, 520, 521, 553, 577, 
695, 699, 700, 712, 729, 735, 
776, 786, 792. 

n-rfict peace, 367, 491, 510, 

516. 556, 569, 809, 891. 
■Perfect purity, 322, 409, 418, 

583, 620. 
Perfection, Christian, 480-548, 

830. 
Perfections of God, 64-112. 
Perit^h, if I, 359, 391. 
PcriahlnQy danger of, 346, 391, 

419. 
Brmw>a«cw, 582, 711, 863, 888. 



Peter, faithless, 379, 575. 
PInjxician, Christ a, 319, 321, 

326, 357. 
Pi/'/rims on eartn, 7, 58, 824, 

636, 747, 795, 831, 832, 902, 

932, 935, 941. 
Pillar of cloud and fire, 30, 232 

751. 
Plafjneef sin, 319. See Lfptosy 
Pleasantness of religion, 297, 

306, 452, 473, 598, 900, 911. 

926, 929. 
Plenteous ^race, 388, 877. 
Pool, waiting at the, 364. 
Pntter, Christ my, 815. 
Praise from all creatures, 11, 

15,46, 63, 67, HI. 
/^vTwe to Christ, 14, 718. 
Praise to the Creator, 67, 78. 
Pra'ise to God, 7, 11, 15, 16, 19, 

42, 54, 92, 107, 241, 308, 

463, 9(X), 905, 912, 923, 924. 
P-aise to Jehovah, 16, 19, 20. 
Praise to the Redeemer, 1, 11, 

116, 341, 914, 983. 
Praise to the Saviour, 1-5, 11, 

13,18,23,131, 177, 180, 90a 
Praise to the Trinity, 21,22,25 
Pray and not faint,562,57r,728 
Pray, Lord, teach us to, 47 

320, 550, 552, 615. 
Prayer and intercession, 549- 

593. 
Prayer, benefit of, 549, 558. 
Prayer described, 550. 
Prayer in the closet, 645, 647, 

648. 
P-ayer, power of, 560. 
P-ayer, private. See Clospt. 
Prayer, spirit of, desired. 5."»0 

556, 575. 
P-ayer, the Lord's, 554, 555. 
Presence of Christ, 34, 35, 37 

786, 787, 793, 886, 907, 909 
Presence of God in his Charcb, 

28, 32, 33, 83, 84, 103, 27o 

565, 621, 635, 648, 663. 6H5 

778, 790. 
P-rservation of the saints, 44b, 

488, 578, 585, 916. 
Priesthood of Curist, 123, 158- 

180. 



INDEX OF SUBJECTS. 



Priests clothed with salvation, 

210. 
Prhnitive Christianity, 225, 22G. 
Prince of glor}', 344. 
Priw:e of peace, 50, 120, 122, 

390, 51G, 703, 705, 75G, 1003, 

1102. 
PriHoner>i of hope, 392, 489, 

490, 542, 589, GUI, GG5, 1092. 
Prize of high callini?, 504, 708, 

833, 834, 88G, 913, 935. 
P'odiyaVs return, 411, 43(>, 

879. 
Promises sure, 390. 
Prophet, priest, and king, Christ 

a, G2, 114, 124, 177. 
Proti'ctiny care, 346, 614, 790, 

796, 886, 887, 890. 
P-nteeting power, G24. 
Procide, the I.ord will, 744, 781. 
Procidence, 759, 762, 1055. 
Providence, mystery of, 745. 
Providence, trusting in, 781. 
Pure in heart, 159, 168, 418, 

495, 497, 499, 507, 512, 619. 
Riritij desired, 418, 494, 499, 

510, 513, 536, 544, 546, 729. 

Quench not smoking flax, 753. 
Quick as the apple of an eye, 

579. 
QuicJcened, believers, 423. 
Quickened, dead souls, 193, 318. 
Quickened, the body, 828. 
Quickening spirit, a, 141, 191, 

265, 310, 981. 

Race, the heavenly, 823, 834, 

837. 
Hansom, Christ a, 174. 
Ransomed sinners, 15, 299, 800, 

355, 495. 
Ravens, God feeds the, 86, 320, 

744. 
Ready, all things are, 51, 348, 

350, 365. 
Reconciled, God is, 392,465,474. 
Rcilenner, gi'acious, 428, 861, 

972, 976. 
Redeemer, my, 128, 179, 914, 

1099. 
Redeemer, liveth, my, 483. 
46 



721 



Redeevier'^s praise, my gi'eat, 1. 
Redemption by Christ, 51, 149, 

152, IGO, 300, 306, 416, 

542. 
^Redemption from all sin, 480, 

518, 546, 547. 
Redemption from the gi'a^e, 947, 

luoo, 1081, 1096. 
Reed, the bruised, 753, 767. 
Refining tire, 374, ^3G, 786. 
Refuge, Christ a, 309, 345, 388, 

405, 764, 772, 774, 847. 
Regeneration, 507. See Bom 

of God. 
Reign of Christ in believers' 

hearts, 532. 
Reign of Christ in heaven, 6, 

158, 161, 176, 178, 180, 509, 

739, 840, 899, 999. 
Reign of Christ on earth, 127, 

205, 989, 99<>-999, 1001. 

1004-1006. 
Rejoice and sing, 244. 
Rejoice in Christ, 2. 
Rejoice in God, 200, 561, 899. 
Rejoice in hope, 3, 495. 
Rejoice in the Lord, 495, 716, 

899. 
Reliance on Christ, 388, 408, 

440, 488, 573, 578, 796. 
Religion, excellency of, 343, 

459, 460, 473, 851, 926. 
Religion, formal, 443, 857. 
Remember me. Lord, 268, 752, 

839, 1116. 
Reneicing grace, 147, 801. 
Rej^ent, O that I could, 318, 

373, 879. 
Repentance, desired, 328, 378, 

379. 
^e/>e7Jtowce, exhortation to, 331- 

334, 3S7-340, 347, 350, 352, 

355, 356. 
Reprobates accepted, 808. 
Resignation, 76-'). See Patience. 
Resolve, the last, 359. 
Rest in Christ, 335, 397, 424, 

451, 484, 486, 510, 885, 891. 
Rest in heaven, 60, 335. 
Restored by giace, 379, 392, 875. 
Resurrection of Christ, 148-157, 

160, 840. 



722 



HHDEX OF SUBJECTS. 



Resurrection of the dead, 926, 

10G8-1101. 
/?^««m,siiiner,354.388,808,879. 
Return^ O wanderer, 354:. 
Reverence of (iod, 27, 36, 820, 

836. 
Revival of the work of God, 42, 

308, 588, 1002. 
Riyhteousncss of Christ, 174, 

280, 310, 569. 
Ri(jhteoiumes8 of faith, the, 432, 

445. 
Rujhteousnesa of God, 280. 
l{i<jht€ou>ineii>i^ the Lord our, 45, 

324, 412, 433, 945. 
Rock, Christ a, 362, 456, 586, 

896, 959, 1021, 1110. 
Rock of ages, 409, 757, 890, 

1115. 
Room, there yet is, 330, 349. 

Sahhath-dny, the, 39, 149, 239- 

252, 594. 
Sahbnth'd<iy a t}^je of heaven, 

245, 246. 
SacrnmaiUd hymns, 263-283. 
Sacrifice accepted, 53, 327, 591, 

710. 
Sacrifice, Christ a, 162, 172, 

177, 267, 2^^, 282, 370, 411, 

743. 
Sacrifice, the Christianas, 250, 

251, 533, (ill, 613. 
Sxcrificiitu all to God, 145, 253, 

773. 
Stints are lovely, 86. 
Salvation by grace, 288, 295, 

305, 342, 431, 436, 443. 
Salvation tlesired, 4S0, 509, 510, 

520, 526, 540. 
Salvation free for all, 97, 294, 

298, 301, 343, 348, 352, 372. 
Salvation lull, 57, 30l, 707. 
Stlvation of (iod, 14, 15, 292. 
Salvation present, 201, 321, 343, 

372. 
Salvation, the great, 11, 279, 

291, 308, 4iKS 553, 920. 
Salvation to God, ascribing, 18, 

542. 
Sa^ictificaHon, 235, 317, 480- 

648, 566. 



Sanctification, entire, 225, 591. 
Sanctification, instantaneous, 

316. 
Sanctified, 194, 700. 
Sincti/ij us, 55, 468, 571, 719. 
SiUui'a cruel power, 590, 701. 
Scejjtre, the golden, 407. 
Scriptures, excellency of the, 

676-690. 
Seal my peace, 412. 
S'td, the Spirit's, 417, 462, 479, 

503, 529, 548. 
Scaled by the Spirit, 364, 368, 

46», 771. 
Seamen, h}Tnns for, 1037-1046. 
Searcher of hearts, 83, 360, 70<J, 

825. 
Self-abasement, 365, 399, 405. 
Self-denial, 506, 773, 803. 
Self-rujhteomness renounced, 99, 

361, 408, 440, 443, 552. 
Sheep, wandering, 16, 23, 848, 

849, 901, 915. 
Shepherd, Christ a, 32, 56, 208, 

590, 591, 617, 701, 848, 915, 

916, 1124, 1125. 
Shepherd oi souls, 208, 698, 972. 
Shepherds of Bethlehem, 113, 

119. 
Shouting, 235, 744. 
Si<jns of Christ's coming, 1102, 

1104. 
Sin, confession of, 309, 320, 

322, 41.), 443, 857, 1017. 
Sin, deceitfuhiess of, 875. 
Sin, disease of, 309, 315, 31/, 

319, 321, 322, 326, 364, 408. 
Silt, dominion over, 537, 547. 
Sin forgiven. See Foryiveness, 

Pardijn, &c. 
Sin, freedom from, 480, 495, - 

510, 546, 547, 768. 
Sin no more, 347, 403, 5] 1, 512, 

707, 872, 875, 878. 
Sin, slaves of, 3(J0, 1021. 
Siny praises. See Praise. 
Sinylny, 1, 13, 25, 92, 95, 718, 

929. 
Sinylp eye, 567. 
Sinners, chief of, 347, 403, 420, 

431, 480, 862. 
Sinners exhorted, 334, 355, 356. 



INDEX OF SUIiJECTS. 



723 



Sinners in^^ted, 327-359. 

Sinner''^ jn'iiver, 81G. 

Sin-slch soul, 315, 319, 322, 352, 

408, 539. 
Sleep, Hwake from, 305, 3hy, 

427, 729, 853, 8(31. 
Shiwher, spiritual, 729, 854. 
Sober mind, a, 547, 570. 
SddierHiji' Christ, 725, 72G, 734. 
Son of God, 137, 327, 890. 
Son of man, 128, 890. 
^>Hry of aiigels, 113, 125. 
Sony of Moses and the Lamb, 

2, 886. 
S(mrj, the everlasting:, 7, 8, 13, 30. 
Sotnjs oi' angels, 4, 6, 8, 9, 31, 

30, 48. 
Sonys of men, 4, G, 7, 48. 
Sony^ of praise, 9, 11, 289, 606, 

838. 
S)nys of the new convert, 306. 
Soul, value of the, 570. 
Sound, joyful, 300, 301, 973, 

975. 
Sovereignty of God, 16, 25, 92, 

93 308 
S<Jicer, the, 212, 215, 220, 689. 
Spirit, holy, 181-202. 
Spirit a Comforter. See Com- 
forter. 
Spirit desired, 42, 129, 181, 

183, 679, 853, 1011. 
Spirit, grieve not the, 420, 422, 

836. 
Spirit of faith, love, power, &c., 

202, 477, 567. 
Spirit, witness of the. See Wit- 

ne*f8. 
Stability in religion, 488, 854, 

855, 883. 
Star in the East, 117. 
Stetcardff, faithful, 811. 
Steicanls, unfaithful, 1017. 
Stony heart. See Heart. 
Stranyers and pilgrims, 2, 7, 

742, 837, 927, 953. 
Stranyern to God, 327, 654, 972. 
Striciny for heaven, 570, 584, 

735, 818, 853, 87 1. 
Strony in the Lord, 725, 787. 
Strony nuui aimed, 443. 
Stubborn heart, 318, 370, 373. 



Stubborn s]iiit, 310. 
Stubborn will, 311, 378, 397. 
Submission to Chrisi, ?09. 
Succession, the true, 203, 213. 
Suffcri)ujsoi\.t\'ni\i^Y^, 552, 578, 

733,743,753,786,790,825,925. 
Sujferinys of Christ, 128-147. 
Sun and shield, 26, 611. 
Sun of righteousness, 125, 150, 

248, 394, 589, 597, 753, 818, 

823, 903. 
Sunday-schools, hymns for, 

1U07-1016, and Supplement. 
Supper, the Lord's, 263-283. 
Surety, Christ our, 412. 
Su-eet, 'tis, to look, 662. 
Sivord of the Spirit, 318, 517. 
Sympathy, Chi'istian, 706, 717, 

974. 

Talents, gifts, &C., 759. 

Talk-iny with God, 687, 481. 

Tears, contrite, 384. 

TVars of joy, 883. 

Tears, penitential, 364, 378, 

384, 400, 409, 647. 
Tears wiped away, 736, 748, 

758, 761, 893, 894, 948, 955. 
Temples of God, 492, 587, 702, 

814, 937. 
Temptation, 553, 578, 582, 737, 

769, 793, 886, 887, 889. 
Tenderness of heart, 163, 384. 
Thanlsyiving hymns, 16, 22, 

49, 92, 392, ijoQ, 904, 906, 

1023-1026. 
Thirsting for God, 301, 352, 

475, 529, 598, 802, 863. 
Thirsting for happiness, 301, 

352. 
Threefold cord, a, 704. 
Throne of grace, the, 58, 62, 

166, 559, 874. 
" Tliy will be done," 565, 566, 

642. 
Time, shortness of, 782, 1053, 

\(.m, 1062. 
Time, uncertainty of, 331-333. 
Title to heaven, 736. 
To-day, 11' ye will hear, 334. 
Tokens of Christ's comingi 

1102, 1103. 



724 



To-morrow is uncertain, 320, 

3:U-333, 3;U), 337. 
Toiifjue^ a stammering, 36, 45, 

2!M). 
Tftiiijue in every tlower, a, G6. 
Tniujiusy a tlioHsaiid. 1, 8i)8. 
Toiti/ne-s^ ten ilioiisantl thou- 
sand, 4, '2b\f, 341», iDlG. 
Toiiijuf^x, unloose our, 4."), 129. 
Tronstictinii, the great, 451. 
Trriisnrf^ the heavenly, 7U8. 
TrinLs, liej-y, 553, 720,*^78G, 787, 

71M), 8.SG. 
7V/«/^^, the holy, 21, 22, 25, 

4U, 44, 102, 105, lOG, lOt), 

5S5, i)45, 'J4G. 
Trill it J in unity, 21, 22, G2, 

1(H-104, 3U1, 4()5, 525. 
Triiuiiph, the Cjosj)el, 741. 
Trinmfjh.foJL believers, lOl, 899, 

921, 934. 
TrouUvs of the Christian, 707, 

822, 825, 880, 888. 
Trumpet, the Gospel, 3'X), 301, 

30G. 
Triistiiif/ in Christ, 85, 323, 

495, 511, G14. 
Trustinj in God, 83, 744, 779, 

780. 
Tniatinrj in grace and Provi- 

denee, 781. 
Tnn, to G.)«l, 328. 
Taruiny to God, 343, 355, 35G, 

8G2. 

UnheHpf, convinced of, 313, 

323, 327, 328, 484. 
Unhrlirf, shut up in, 3G9, 372. 
Unhi'liiriiuj fear, 784. 
Unehun'/eaUeueufi of God, 108, 

702. ' 
Uurimnijrnhleiiffia of Christ, 172, 

317, 390, 405, 702, 788, 79G, 

8G5, 993. 
Unr.lrun, the, 309, 317. 
Un/'i(ith/'ufiu't!.s confessed, 403, 

42n, S(;o, 8GS, 8G9, 873. 
Unhfjlif, the, 309. See Nutaral 

bf^jiniritij. 

Union, Chiistian, 701, 70G, 711, 

1121. 
Unreyeneratey 314. , 



INDEX OF SUBJECTS. 



D')wppnkab!e gift, the, 124, 297, 
3(>7, 343, 572, 435, 4G8, 526. 

\nin world, 506, 800, 805. 
Vanitt/ of all things, 797, 798. 
Vniiitij of niau, 433. 
Veil of unbelief, 370, 371, 477, 

979. 
IViY on the heart, 313, 360, 814. 
ImZ-vof wrath, 1021, 1110. 
Vivtitu, Christ a, 172, 27 G, 411, 

442. 
Victory through Christ, 734, 

738-^741, 834. 
I'lYr, we are, 309, 317, 320, 387 

Viuryoni, God's, 221. 

\'tiice of God, 334. 

Voice, the still small, 186, 658. 

I 0//VJ neglected, 33'.), 8G0. 

Voirs performed, 339, 451, 455, 

G27, G3(>, 688. 
Voyaye of life, 388. 

irrrfVi«(7 for God, 34, 540, 828, 

868. 
Wditiuy in the temple, 119. 
Waitiny on God, 486, 576, 716, 

814, 828. 
Walhiny in Christ, 573, 864. 
Walkiiiy in the light, 457, 512, 

842, 929. 
\V(tlkiity with Christ in white, 

17G, 225, 931. 
WiUkiny with God, 45, 361, 

\S-I^, 720, 869. 
Wdndfircr united to retm-n, 

354, 358, 874. 
Wandcrcr'H rest, 343, 401, boQ^ 

iru, 862, 937. 
Wander iny from God, 58, 302, 

454, 631, 862, 880, 901, 994. 
Wanderiny slieej), 379, 383. 
Wandcriinj thoughts, 394, 425. 
War deprecated, 1027, 1028, 

1102. 
Wir/are, spiritual, 721-741, 

1092. 
Worninyff, 337, 575, 861. 
Wi^/ird in Chiist's blood, 159, 

322, 323, 37;i, 37l>, 392, 398, 

4 IS, 440, 4-12, 521, 529. 583, 

5MJ, 603, 825, 828, 948. 



ES'DEX OF SUBJECTS. 



Watch and pray, 553, 570, 571, 

57G, 577, 584, G28, 631, 731. 

861.^ 
Watch fnhiess^ 556, 575, 576, 

57w; 861, 1072, 1106, 1108. 
Watchmen, Zion's, 205, 206, 

KX)3. 
Watch-ulf/ht, 911, 1047-1056. 
Water, living, 827. 
Water of life, 227, 492, 593, 865. 
Wai/, &c. Christ the, 168, 169, 

173, 393, 448, 488, 566, 573, 

768, 838, 864, 1072. 
Wai/ of peace, 343, 702, 703. 
Wertrt^ at rest, lo92. 
HWr^of sin, 315, 486. 
Weari/ siiiuers, 341, 360, 422, 

593. 
Wcanj souls, 302, 335, 341, 

343. 
Wear?/ wanderers, 302, 343, 

348, 352, 354, 402. 
White as snow, 322, 379, 418, 

442, 583, 591, 948. 
White stone, the, 530. 
Whole, made, 310, 319, 322. 
Whij will ye die ? 355, 356. 
WaloK and fatherless, 668, 923. 
Will of God, 565-567, 656, 803. 
Wluf/si, shadow of thy, 573, 607, 

618, 621, 762, 843, 891. 
WmioTtt, divine, 297, 822, 846, 

1009. 
WL^lom, eternal, 68, 301, 1009. 
Withheld from sin, 421. 
Wltnes.t of the Spirit, 184, 185, 

201, 460, 462, 467, 471, 477, 

479, 520, 548. 
Wlttiessefi, cloud of, 834. 
Witne>ifieff, three, in heaven. 

See Trinity. 
Wolf, Satan the, 701. 
]rc;;/(ier/u/ Counsellor, the, 120, 

121. 
W(yrdy blessing on the, 38, 57. 



725 



Word, quick and powerful, 686, 

735. 
Worklnq for God, 207, 217, 567, 

570, 572, 818, 1066. 
Works of God, 405, 436. See 

Divine Perfect If nifi. 
Works, no merit in, 361, 405, 

431, 436, 443, 529, 814, 857. 
Worldly good, 414, 811, 817. 
Worldly-miiidedness, 582, 868. 
Worship, close of, 1119, 1129. 
Worsh Ijj due to Christ, 4, 5, 18, 

119, 120, 887. 
Wor^^hlp, family, 594, 643. 
Worship of God, 67, 95, 327. 
Wory,hljj, public, 16, 28-30, (j'3, 

1119, 1129. 
Worthy the Lamh. See Lamb. 
Wounded soul, the, 318, 326, 

756. 
Wounds of Jesus, 34, 51, 342, 

403, 405, 437. 412, 466, 578, 

8a), 1021, 1U22, 1116. 
Wrath, day of, 1114. 
Wrath of God, 340, 361, 393, 

453, 600. 
Vt^rath to come, 324, 386, 660. 
Wrestllnf; with (iod, 366, 649, 

650. 
Wrctx^hrdsuniers, 341, 349, 415, 

804. 

Yield, 1, 422, 428, 544. 

Yoke of Christ, 217, 628, 704, 

757. 
Young converts, 590, 731, 732, 

734. 
Youth admonished, 332, 337, 

346. 
Youth, how to train up, 754. 

Zeal for God desired, 574, 730, 

732, 854, 858. 
Zlon, daughter of, 229. 
ZioTif the heavenly, 950. 



IN.DEX OF TEXTS. 



Oenesis. 


Exodus. 


DEUTERONO»rY. 


I. Kings- 


fTi. Ver. 


Hymn 


Ch. Ver. J 


lymn 


Ch. Ver. 


Hymn 


Ch. Ver. Hymn 


1 1, 2 


190 


3 2 


793 


5 32 


573 


18 44 1002 


-1 1, 2 


191 


3 6 


944 


18 15 


177 


19 12 186 


1 1, 2 


679 


12 3 


164 


29 17 


973 


19 12 658 


1 1,2 


988 


13 21 


30 


32 3 


175 


19 18 54 


2 7 


76 


13 21 


164 


32 3 


1048 




8 15 


219 


13 21 


832 


33 27 


563 


n. Kings. 


3 19 


1065 


13 21, 22 


232 


33 27 


890 


7 4 359 


24 


45 


15 11 


20 


33 29 


1028 


10 15 938 


5 24 


869 


15 11 


90 


34 1 


491 


10 19 72 


8 11 


199 


16 35 


164 


34 ] 


492 




8 11 


429 


20 11 


239 


34 6 


1084 


I. Cheon. 


8 11 


869 


20 11 


252 






16 34 15 


8 22 


1025 


20 12 


656 


Joshua. 


16 34 17 


9 13 


429 


20 24 


33 


24 15 


451 


28 9 346 


15 1 


522 


21 6 


883 


24 15 


620 29 11. 12 92 


15 1 


543 


21 30 


62 






29 13 67 


15 12 


135 


25 22 


45 


I. Samuel. 


29 14 449 


18 14 


376 


25 22 


56 


3 10 


461 




18 27 


27 


25 22 


60 


3 18 


637 


n. Cheon. 


18 27 


534 


25 22 


406 


7 12 


901 


6 41 210 


19 17 


303 


25 22 


55} 


n. Sam 




7 14 1018 


20 6 


421 


32 10 


560 


uel. 


15 12 450 


22 8 


744 


33 18, 19 


93 


6 20 


627 




22 10 


773 


33 18, 19 


680 


7 IS 


449 


Nehemiah. 


27 36 


49 


33 22 


93 


12 23 


687 


9 5 46 


27 36 


665 


33 22 


769 


14 14 


838 




28 12 


558 


33 22 


770 


14 14 


872 


Esther. 


28 17 


30 


34 5 


96 


18 33 


955 


4 11 407 


2ft 17 


36 


34 5 


447 






4 16 359 


28 19 


58 


34 6, 7 


298 


1. Kings. 


Job. 


31 13 


58 






3 12 


441 


31 42 


944 


Leviticus. 


8 14 


197 


1 21 759 


31 42 


946 


19 2 
25 9 


100 
300 


8 27 


962 


1 21 1073 


32 26 


226 


8 27 


964 


3 17 937 


32 26 


366 


8 27 


968 


3 17 1092 


32 26 


467 


NtTM'R'P'PQ 


8 30 


52 


3 19 1069 


32 26 


'490 


xy Lisixiijiir 


* 


8 63 


964 


4 17 312 


32 26 


oo3 


21 17 


492 


8 63 


971 


5 17 639 


?2 'JCt 


1)49 


23 10 


lOS:] 


18 38 


572 


7 6 1057 



INDEX Oh" TEXTS. 



727 



J 01 


u 


Psalms. 


PSAI 


MS. 


Psalms. 


L'h. Ver. 


Hymn 


Ps. Ver. 


Hymn 


Ps. Ver. 


Hymn 


Ps. Ver. 


Hymn 


7 16 


949 


10 17 


506 


31 5 


663 


50 1 


20 


11 7 


108 


12 1 


1082 


32 1 


473 


50 14 


688 


11 13 


404 


14 1 


64 


32 5 


61 


51 2 


898 


14 4 


309 


15 1,2 


80 


32 6 


755 


51 2 


418 


14 10 


1073 


16 9 


1101 


32 8 


170 


51 2 


664 


14 14 


663 


16 11 


70 


33 5 


70 


51 5 


309 


16 22 


1052 


16 11 


778 


33 12 


1023 


51 6 


857 


19 25 


179 


17 8 


607 


33 12 


1028 


51 10 


500 


ly 25 


483 


17 8 


883 


34 1 


921 


51 11 


420 


19 25 


1099 


17 15 


864 


34 18 


384 


51 12 


421 


21 13 


1064 18 2 


614 


35 18 


18 


51 15 


48 


25 4 


309,18 9 


74 


35 18 


303 


51 17 


384 


26 14 


91 


18 10 


90O 


36 5 


88 


51 17 


413 


26 14 


861:18 31 


757 


36 9 


465 


51 18 


228 


29 3 


869 


19 1 


65 


37 5 


779 


55 6 


761 


29 3 


873 


19 5 


210 


37 31 


562 


55 14 


696 


31 33 


580 


19 6 


999 


39 4 


1058 


55 22 


785 


38 7 


9 


19 7 


507 


39 4 


1061 


56 12 


455 


38 7 


970 


19 7 


681 


39 4 


1062 


56 12 


860 


38 7 


986 


21 4 


604 


39 5 


782 


57 1 


917 


38 9 


70 


22 1 


134 


39 7 


578 


57 8 


596 


38 41 


320 


22 3 


100 


39 12 


836 


57 8 


597 


88 41 


781 


23 1-6 


848 


39 13 


666 


57 8 


599 


40 4 


309 


23 1-6 


849 


40 1,2 


100 


59 16, 17 


604 


U) 4 


502 


23 1-6 


915 


40 17 


575 


61 2 


362 


12 6 


320 


23 1-6 


916 


41 1, 3 


1033 


61 2 


896 


12 6 


399 


23 1-6 


1066 


42 1, 2 


863 


62 5 


576 


12 6 


425 


24 1-4 


80 


42 5 


774 


63 1 


423 






24 7 


154 


42 5 


775 


63 1 


475 


PSAXMS. 


24 7 


156 


42 5 


863 


63 1 


629 


1 1, 2 


682 


24 10 


514 


42 7 


789 


63 1 


598 


1 1, 2 


687 


25 18 


387 


42 7 


790 


63 1 


795 


2 11 


43 26 8 


237 


42 7 


791 


63 6 


620 


2 12 


739 27 1 


737 


43 3 


690 


65 1 


59 


3 5 


601 27 3 


733 


44 1 


1029 


05 2 


183 


3 5 


602 27 5 


631 


45 3 


25 


G5 2 


582 


3 5 


889 27 5 


839 


45 3 


177 


65 2 


664 


4 3 


613 27 7 


396 


46 1 


768 


65 4 


406 


4 6 


465 27 7 


564 


46 1 


774 


05 5 


1038 


5 3 


595 27 8 


839 


46 1 


847 


05 8 


88 


5 7 


47 27 8 


902 


46 1 


894 


65 8 


6(K. 


8 1 


70 27 9 


914 


46 3 


54 


65 9 


69 


H 1 


71 27 14 


576 


46 4 


847 


65 11 


1023 


8 1 


91 27 14 


577 


46 10 


814 


65 11 


1025 


S 2 


999 29 2 


718 


47 5 


157 


66 1 


11 


8 3 


27 29 3 


79 


47 8 


21 


06 9 


660 


8 3 


68 29 9 


967 


48 1 


965 


66 20 


561 


9 18 


755 30 5 


746 


48 2 


223 


67 1 


224 


9 19 


19 30 5 


780 


48 13 


230 


67 1 


423 


10 16 


716 


31 3 


188 


48 14 


170 


67 1 


990 



728 



INDEX OF TEXTS. 



PSALl 


MS. 


PSAO 


rs. 


Psalms. 


PSAI.1IS. 


Ps. Ver. 


Hymn 


Ps. Ver. 


Hymn 


Ps. Ver. 


Hymn 


Ps. Ver. 


H}'Tnii 


67 2 


974 


SO 10 


912 


107 10 


118 


130 7 


403 


67 2 


983 


80 11 


215 


107 23 


971 


130 7 


802 


07 4 


!>,X) 


87 3 


233 


107 23 


1044 


130 7 


877 


08 18 


9 


87 4 


909 


107 23 


1040 


132 18 


10 


09 5 


422 


87 7 


903 


107 32 


15 


132 18 


175 


09 13 


S4o 


89 7 


90 


108 1 


805 


132 18 


170 


71 9 


072 


89 9 


1040 


108 1 


918 


132 18 


995 


72 4 


89 


89 15 


291 


113 3 


20 


133 1 


094 


72 4 


118 


89 15 


294 


113 4 


14 


133 I 


712 


72 4 


120 


89 15 


3<X) 


113 5 


90 


133 1 


1121 


72 7 


11 


89 15 


457 


113 7 


89 


130 1 


15 


72 11 


50 


89 15 


492 


114 1-8 


75 


137 


237 


72 11 


990 


89 26 


709 


116 1 


885 


139 1-6 


83 


72 11 


999 


90 1, 2 


82 


116 7 


424 


139 1-6 


84 


72 15 


1 


90 1,2 


1059 


116 7 


808 


139 1-6 


98 


72 15 


.999 


90 12 


1010 


116 8 


404 


139 1-0 


103 


73 24 


41 


91 1 


891 


116 12 


81 


139 1-6 


110 


73 24 


170 


91 4 


58 


116 12 


300 


139 7 


035 


73 24 


188 


91 4 


388 


116 12 


808 


139 23 


825 


73 24 


070 


91 4 


702 


118 18 


897 


139 23 


700 


73 20 


009 


91 


0O9 


118 22 


959 


142 4 


972 


73 26 


071 


91 9 


772 


118 24 


37 


144 1 


732 


73 20 


789 


91 11 


018 


118 24 


39 


144 12 


964 


73 20 


823 


91 11 


Hr>o 


118 24 


149 


145 3 


106 


74 22 


210 


91 11 


851 


118 24 


239 


145 3 


108 


70 7 


90 


93 3 


1043 


118 24 


252 


145 10 


00 


77 19 


841 


95 


12 


118 27 


883 


140 7 


1 


77 19 


1041 


95 


32 


119 18 


080 


140 7 


325 


78 5, 


1030 


95 


47 


119 54 


091 


140 7 


923 


78 8 


374 


90 1 


1055 


119 94 


804 


140 7 


924 


78 8 


397 


97 1 


77 


119 94 


922 


140 8 


1 


78 14 


751 


100 1-4 





119 96 


517 


140 8 


89 


78 53 


012 


100 1-4 


11 


119 105 


070 


147 1 


86 


79 11 


589 


100 1-4 


10 


119 105 


083 


147 2 


305 


81 I 


13 


101 2 


500 


119 HI 


077 


147 9 


320 


=^4 1-12 


24 


102 13 


997 


119 130 


078 


147 14 


1027 


^■\ 2 


29 


102 20 


005 


121 1 


502 


147 14 


1031 


S4 2 


005 


103 1, 2 


884 


122 1 


252 


148 1-13 


15 


M 3 


07 


103 19 


18 


122 


591 


148 1-13 


21 


•<A 


747 


104 1, 2 


19 


122 7 


39 


148 1-14 


111 


<4 7 


728 


104 1, 2 


77 


125 1 


228 






•<4 7 


729 


104 1, 2 


78 


125 2 


228 


Prover 


KS 


S4 10 


07 


104 1, 2 


79 


125 2 


231 


1 22 


851 


U 10 


594 


105 6 


175 


125 2 


230 


2 10 


846 


84 11 


20 


105 39 


751 


127 1 


218 


3 11 


057 


S4 11 


Oil 


106 1 


437 


127 1 


630 


3 13 


18 


85 4 


1018 


106 2 


17 


130 1 


429 


3 13 


297 


S5 


42 


107 2, 3 


15 


130 3 


312 


4 18 


210 


86 1 


215,107 2, 3 


392 


130 3 


303 


4 23 


28 


86 8 


90 


107 12 


670 


130 7 


402 


4 27 


573 



LNDEX OF TEXTS. 



729 



yflOVERBS. 


Isaiah. 


. ISAI. 


VH. 


ISAIA 


H. 


Ch. Ver. 


Hymn 


Ch. Ver. 


Ilvrnn 


Ch. Ver. 


Hymn 


Ch. Ver. 


Iljrnn 


4 27 


579 


1 5 


"4<)3 


31 21 


801 


48 10 


793 


4 27 


7U0 


1 25 


544 


32 2 


388 


49 15 


236 


6 6 


8r)3 


2 3 


990 


32 2 


409 


49 15 


454 


7 2 


579 


2 4 


1027 


32 2 


709 


49 16 


237 


8 30 


10()8 


2 21 


1021 


32 2 


770 


49 16 


444 


8 30 


1009 


4 5 


233 


32 2 


771 


50 7 


654 


14 34 


1024 


6 1-7 


14 


32 2 


1102 


50 10 


745 


16 1 


28 


6 1-7 


22 


32 20 


212 


51 9 


235 


16 1 


506 


6 1-7 


21 


33 17 


920 


51 9 


995 


18 10 


511 


6 1-7 


31 


33 17 


931 


51 14 


589 


18 10 


954 


6 1-7 


33 


33 17 


95(J 


51 14 


976 


19 17 


1035 


6 1-7 


44 


33 17 


956 


52 1 


229 


22 11 


716 


6 1-7 


45 


34 4 


1109 


52 1 


234 


22 11 


497 


6 1-7 


72 


35 3 


819 


52 3 


972 


23 2Q 


428 


6 1-7 


104 


35 5, 6 


1 


52 7-10 


205 


27 1 


331 


6 1-7 


110 


35 8 


448 j 52 7-10 


308 


27 1 


332 


6 1-7 


407 


35 10 


2 52 7-10 


723 


27 1 


333 


9 2 


308 


35 10 


229 52 7-10 


994 


29 25 


655 


9 6 


120 


35 10 


837 52 U 


234 


SO 12 


582 


9 6 


123 


35 10 


838 


53 4 


370 






9 6 


127 


35 10 


1049 


53 6 


347 


F.CCLESIASTES. 


9 6 


516 


37 20 


72 


53 10 


305 


1 2 


797 


9 6 


703 


40 1-5 


209 


55 1 


284 


1 2 


798 


9 6 


705 


40 8 


1097 55 1 


301 


1 2 


1060 


6 


750 


40 9 


1355 1 


352 


1 5, 7 


935 


11 12 


9S0 


40 11 


254 5." 1 


740 


4 12 


704 


11 12 


981 


40 11 


250 55 4 


837 


5 1 


28 


12 1 


453 


40 11 


590 ^b 6 


346 


5 2 


27 


12 1 


883 


40 12 


75 55 6 


805 


8 8 


338 


21 11 


1(J(>3 


40 12 


1037 


50 7 


966 


S 8 


667 


24 16 


826 


40 12 


1042 


57 15 


20 


11 


212 


25 8 


748 


40 31 


43 


57 15 


50 


12 14 


1100 


26 3 


493 


40 31 


828 


57 15 


384 






26 3 


510 


42 3 


103 


57 15 


719 


Sol. Song. | 


26 3 


br>() 


42 3 


753 


57 20 


334 


1 3 


907 


26 3 


509 


42 3 


707 


b^ 6 


31. '^ 


1 3 


999 


26 3 


891 


42 16 


1 


59 10 


292 


1 7 


916 


26 3 


894 


42 16 


702 


60 1-3 


234 


2 1 


1010 


26 12 


99 


43 1, 2 


790 


00 l-.H 


992 


2 3 


710 


26 12 


732 


43 1,2 


888 


00 IS 


23S 


2 4 


281 


27 13 


741 


43 6 


229 60 22 


993 


2 14 


423 


28 15 


1022 


43 21 


76 61 1-3 


57 


2 16 


777 


28 16 


959 


44 1 


175 j 61 1-3 


2'.>9 


2 17 


651 


28 16 


960 


44 3 


202 01 1-3 


74S 


3 10 


938 


28 16 


963 


44 22 


354 01 1-3 


876 


3 11 


10 


28 29 


90 


44 23 


ia)l 02 3 


175 


^ 10 


210 


30 17 


723 


45 7 


634 62 6 


206 


8 6, 7 


368 


30 18 


298 


45 19 


57 62 10 


211 


8 6, 7 


538 


30 18 


342 


45 22 


305 62 10 


723 


8 6. 7 


76.S 


31 21 


573 


45 23 


175 


63 3 


15C 



?30 



INDEX OF TEXTS. 



Isaiah. 


I jEREmAH. 


1 Hosea. 


Malachi. 


Ch. Ver. 


Hymn'Ch. Ver. 


Hymn 


Cli. Ver. 


Hymn 


Ch. Ver. 


Hymn 


63 3 


756 32 40 


810 14 3 


923 


3 1 


498 


63 5 


292 


|49 11 


668 


14 4 


868 


3 3 


536 


63 10 


420 


'49 23 


783 


! ^ 




3 7 


354 


63 11 


859 


!50 5 


619 


JOEI,. 


3 17 


225 


81 1 


376 


50 5 


1054 


2 17 


1010 


4 2 


150 


61 2 


536 






2 17 


1020 


4 2 


394 


61 3 


815 


Lam. of 


Jer. 


3 18 


345 


4 2 


652 


Go 17 


9 


1 12 


133 


3 18 


352 


4 2 


503 


G5 21 


53 


1 12 


134 










GG 2 


61 


1 12 


139 


MiCAH. 


Matthew. 


GG 2 


363 


1 12 


0-2S 


4 3 
G G,S 
6 9 
6 9 

6 9 

7 19 


996 
361 
763 

788 
895 
184 


1 21 


1 


GG 2 


373 


3 19 


175 


1 21 


485 


66 2 


379 


3 24 


777 


1 23 


94 


GG 2 


382 


3 24 


821 


2 2 


117 


GG 2 


384 


3 24 


908 


2 2 


119 


66 2 


500 


3 33 


666 


2 2 


684 






3 33 


763 


2 2 


1014 


Jeremiah. 


3 33 


766 


Habakkuk. 


2 5 


127 


2 2 

2 2 


10 

452 


EZEKIEL. 


2 1 


576 


3 7 
3 7 


324 

386 


2 13 


593 


3 17 


206 


2 1 


861 

588 


3 9 


303 


3 4 


77 


11 19 


147 


3 2 


3 11 


571 


3 4 


346 


11 19 


364 


3 4 


70 


3 11 


717 


3 4 


46() 


11 19 


373 


3 17 


784 


3 11 


548 


3 4 


469 


U 19 


379 


T_r . ^_, 




3 12 


513 


3 4 


879 


11 19 


382 


Haggai. 


3 16 


196 


8 15 


208 


U 19 


383 


2 7 


48 


4 16 


308 


3 22 


351 


11 19 


385 


2 7 


119 


4 16 


977 


3 22 


872 


16 6 


380 


2 7 


124 


4 25 


911 


3 22 


874 


16 6 


449 


2 7 


125 


5 4 


57 


•S 22 


880 


33 7 


205 






5 4 


390 


5 24 


1026 


33 U 


337 


Zechariah. 


5 5 


843 


6 16 


335 


33 11 


342 


1 5 


1063 


5 6 


529 


8 22 


326 


33 11 


355 


3 2 


476 


5 8 


497 


8 22 


357 


33 11 


356 


3 2 


877 


5 8 


499 


9 23 


433 


36 26 


147 


4 7 


288 


5 8 


500 


10 24 


765 


^7 1 


227 


4 10 


753 


5 8 


508 


12 1 


763 






9 11 


589 


5 13 


866 


12 2 


857 


Daniel. 


9 12 


392 


5 14 


218 


13 23 


305 


3 23 


786 


9 12 


489 


6 6 


644 


23 6 


45 


3 23 


787 


9 12 


490 


6 6 


645 


23 6 


412 


7 9 


25 


9 12 


495 


6 9 


554 


23 29 


318 


9 26 


144 


9 12 


542 


6 9 


555 


23 29 


328 






9 12 


1092 


6 9 


592 


23 29 


401 


Hose A. 


13 1 


269 


6 10 


202 


31 31 


501 


4 6 


972 


13 1 


290 


6 10 


509 


32 27 


376 


10 2 


857 


13 1 


303 


6 10 


525 


32 39 


701 


U 4 


451 


13 I 


323 


6 10 


565 


32 39 


702 


11 4 


471 


13 1 


456 


6 10 


566 


32 an 


1121 


11 8 


4i VA 


U 7 


74: 


6 10 


656 



INDEX OF TEXTS. 



731 



Matti-^^w. 


Matthew. 


IVIatthew. 


Mabk 




Ch. Ver 


Hymn 


Ch. Ver. 


Hymn 


Ch. Ver. 


Hymn 


Ch. Ver. Hymn 


6 10 


713 


11 30 


510 


24 12 


101 


5 34 


283 


6 10 


980 


11 30 


704 


24 13 


925 


5 34 


819 


6 11 


744 


11 30 


757 


24 30 


1108 


5 34 


357 


6 13 


88 


12 15 


315 


25 1 


1050 


5 34 


872 


6 21 


932 


12 20 


103 


25 1 


1051 


7 37 


780 


6 21 


941 


12 20 


753 


25 25 


1053 


8 38 


812 


6 21 


1083 


12 36 


1106 


25 34 


2 


8 38 


813 


6 22 


5G7 


13 3 


220 


25 41 


331 


9 23 


487 


6 22 


830 


13 3 


680 


25 41 


330 


9 24 


823 


6 26 


744 


13 16 


205 


25 41 


1114 


9 24 


875 


6 28 


67 


13 19 


1126 


25 42 


1034 


10 16 


1013 


7 7 


57 


13 19 


1128 


26 26 


263 


10 16 


1071 


7 7 


401 


14 14 


408 


26 26 


265 


11 23 


392 


7 7 


557 


14 23 


647 


26 39 


633 


11 23 


546 


7 11 


183 


14 27 


704 


26 40 


1047 


12 32 


159 


7 24 


' 223 


14 30 


410 


26 41 


540 


13 31 


494 


8 I 


911 


14 30 


575 


26 41 


553 


16 14 


51 


8 2 


31G 


14 30 


703 


26 41 


556 


16 15 


204 


8 2 


317 


15 22 


301 


26 41 


861 


16 19 


161 


8 2 


319 


15 25 


305 


26 42 


757 






8 2 


442 


16 18 


223 


26 75 


370 


Luke 




8 8 


543 


16 18 


225 


26 75 


383 




8 19 


803 


16 18 


230 


27 26 


130 


1 17 


1007 


8 20 


890 


16 18 


233 


27 29 


130 


1 79 


867 


8 25 


410 


17 20 


436 


27 29 


145 


2 8 


113 


8 27 


1037 


17 20 


568 


27 29 


153 


2 8 


119 


8 27 


1039 


18 10 


05 


27 29 


158 


2 13. 14 


9 


9 12 


319 


18 20 


33 


27 29 


178 


2 13, 14 


40 


9 12 


321 


18 20 


34 


27 45 


146 


2 13, 14 


113 


9 12 


322 


18 20 


35 


27 45 


152 


2 13, 14 


116 


9 36 


972 


18 20 


55 


27 46 


134 


2 13, 14 


125 


9 37 


207 


19 13 


258 


27 46 


743 


2 13, 14 


127 


9 37 


208 


19 13 


261 


27 51 


134 


2 13, 14 


280 


10 6 


980 


19 26 


330 


27 51 


136 


2 52 


1013 


10 6 


981 


19 26 


376 


27 51 


142 


4 18 


1 


10 17 


580 


20 12 


216 


27 66 


150 


4 18 


876 


10 25 


792 


20 12 


221 


27 66 


152 


4 33 


521 


10 31 


892 


20 12 


571 


28 18 


157 


5 12 


816 


11 5 


1 


21 15 


118 


28 19 


105 


5 12 


817 


11 5 


29 


21 15 


1012 


28 19 


253 


5 12 


442 


11 5 


33 


21 15 


1015 


28 19 


262 


6 21 


746 


11 12 


727 


21 16 


999 


28 20 


255 


8 15 


38 


U 12 


735 


21 16 


1007 






8 21 


28 


11 2S 


287 


21 42 


244 


Maek. 


8 25 


1045 


11 28 


835 


21 42 


959 


1 40 


316 


8 35 


310 


11 28 


841 


21 42 


960 


1 40 


817 


10 6 


694 


11 28 


853 


22 4 


348 


2 28 


149 10 39 


538 


U 28 


858 


22 4 


353 


4 28 


212 10 39 


820 


n 28 


4-^6 


24 7 


1102 


4 39 


757 10 40 


647 


11 20 


?17 


J\ 12 


10 


5 7 


310 


.10 4 -7 


807 



732 



INDEX OF TEXTS. 



Luke. 



Luke. 



John. 



Acts. 



Ch. Ver. 


Hynnn 


Ch. Ver. 


Hymn 


'Ch. Ver. 


Hymn 


Ch. Vor. 


Hymn 


11 1 


47 


23 34 


167 14 6 


168 


2 1-3 


30 


11 1 


550 


23 42 


290 14 6 


169 


2 1-3 


182 


11 1 


552 


23 42 


752 14 6 


393 


2 1-3 


191 


11 1 


CI 5 


23 46 


lOSO 14 6 


488 


2 1-3 


193 


11 21 


443 


24 .32 


45 14 6 


566 


2 1-3 


202 


11 28 


28 


24 32 


902 14 6 


864 


2 24 


155 


11 28 


3>< 


24 34 


151 14 6 


ia)7 


2 42 


711 


12 24 


32n 24 34 


152 14 13 


560 


2 46 


1120 


12 32 


11(»2:24 36 


35 14 16 


22 


3 19 


53 


12 35 


79S 


24 39 


51 


14 16 


181 


3 21 


156 


12 49 


572 






14 16 


182 


4 12 


169 


12 49 


10()2 


TotT-' 


14 16 


186 


4 12 


306 


13 8 


3sl 


OOE 


L^. 


14 16 


189 


7 48 


56 


13 8 


1048 


1 4 


5S7 


14 16 


192 


7 56 


886 


13 8 


1056 


1 5 


C>^0 14 16 


198 


9 11 


550 


14 17 


34S 


1 14 


12S 14 16 


199 


9 18 


311 


14 17 


353 


1 14 


523 


14 16 


2(M) 12 7 


445 


14 27 


760 


1 18 


174 


:i4 16 


304 14 


321 


15 2 321-420 


1 29 


219 


14 16 


390 14 9 


426 


15 20-24 


350 


1 29 


302 


14 16 


394 14 17 


73 


15 20-24 


351 


1 29 


414 


14 16 


462,14 22 


590 


15 20-24 


430 


3 21 


714 


14 16 


468 14 22 


742 


16 16 


975 


3 21 


830 


14 16 


470 14 22 


825 


17 5 


372 


3 33 


8S7 


14 16 


478 14 26 


978 


17 5 


375 


4 10 


827 


14 16 


479 14 26 


984 


18 1 


549 


4 20 


63 


14 16 


974 16 31 


347 


18 1 


72S 


5 6 


319 


14 19 


179 16 31 


357 


18 13 


3^3 


5 14 


875 


15 5 


99 17 23 


314 


18 13 • 


4(M) 


5 14 


878 


15 5 


767 17 24 


56 


18 14 


567 


6 21 


783 


16 13 


199 17 28 


88 


19 41 


37.S 


6 34 


826 


16 33 


49 17 28 


99 


21 25 


1104 


6 37 


365 


16 33 


886 17 28 


108 


21 28 


9«S 


6 37 


414 


17 1 


189 17 28 


680 


21 28 


1104 


6 48 


265 


17 1 


192 17 28 


904 


22 42 


565 


6 63 


191 


17 15 


641 20 35 


1035 


22 42 


638 


6 68 


360 


17 21 


698 2(j 18 


700 


2'^ 42 


642 


6 68 


424 


18 40 


139 






22 42 


758 


7 37 


284 


19 5 


139 


ROMI 




22 44 


141 


7 37 


345 


19 30 


142 


NS. 


22 44 


148 


8 11 


875 


19 30 


143 


1 4 


25 


22 44 


268 


8 11 


878 


19 34 


138 


1 4 


905 


22 44 


341 


8 12 


369 


19 34 


269, 


1 20 


27 


22 44 


659 


8 36 


509 


19 34 


3441 


2 17 


857 


22 61 


575 


8 36 


518 


19 34 


409; 


2 28 


857 


23 6 


178; 


10 4 


591 


20 22 


34; 


3 17 


343 


28 28 


148! 


10 16 


698 


20 25 


34 i 


4 5 


347 


23 30 


1103, 


11 9 


818 


20 27 


511 


4 6 


473 


23 33 


283, 


13 9 


524 


20 28 


477: 


4 IS 


439 


23 33 


293' 


13 U 


226 


21 15 


454 i 


4 18 


784 


28 34 


1411 


14 2 


1065 


21 20 


538; 


4 20 


508 



ENDEX OF TEXTS. 



733 



Romans. 


I. Cor. 


n. 


Cor. 


Galat 


tANS. 


Ch. Ver 


Hymn 


Ch. Ver 


Hymn 


Ch. Ver 


. Hymn 


Ch. Ver. 


Hymn 


5 5 


42 


2 2 


133 


3 15 


370 


4 18 


854 


5 5 


412 


2 2 


529 


3 15 


372 


5 1 


877 


5 6 


131 


2 2 


582 


3 18 


498 


5 6 


436 


5 8 


3()G 


2 2 


8<H) 


4 7 


708 


5 ( 


716 


5 15 


288 


2 9 


852 


5 "• 


636 


62 


699 


5 17 


537 


2 10 


477 


5 1 


6G2 


6 2 


7.)0 


5 20 


032 


3 9 


221 


5 1 


952 


6 2 


705 


6 r. 


532 


4 2 


811 


5 6 


1092 


6 2 


712 


6 12 


5UU 


5 6 


53 


5 7 


747 


6 2 


1035 


6 23 


438 


G 20 


527 


5 11 


653 


6 14 


145 


7 24 


580 


G 20 


533 


5 14 


217 






8 1 


445 


7 35 


28 


5 14 


653 


ErHESIAKS. 


8 2 


5(J7 


8 4 


159 


5 17 


520 


I 6 


458 


8 2 


531 


10 16 


2(;5 


6 2 


51 


1 7 


542 


8 11 


828 


10 31 


5G7 


6 2 


329 


1 13 


462 


8 1(5 


184 


11 23 


2G3 


6 2 


330 


1 13 


479 


8 IG 


185 


11 23 


2(*)8 


6 2 


410 


1 14 


187 


8 IG 


2()I 


12 3 


4-77 


7 5 


707 


1 14 


201 


8 IG 


4G0 


13 1 


844 


9 6 


1035 


1 14 


470 


8 16 


4G2 


13 12 


841 


9 15 


124 


1 18 


480 


8 16 


471 


13 13 


910 


11 2 


579 


1 22 


886 


8 16 


474 


13 14 


32 


12 9 


776 


2 1 


310 


8 18 


958 


13 14 


698 


12 10 


650 


2 1 


324 


8 26 


1G5 


15 20 


153 


13 11 


197 


2 3 


476 


8 26 


552 


15 25 


157 


13 11 


698 


2 8 


372 


8 34 


IGl 


15 25 


509 


13 11 


1121 


2 8 


431 


8 37 


852 


15 25 


545 


13 14 


1129 


2 8 


436 


9 28 


539 


15 25 


T6[) 






2 8 


929 


10 2 


574 


15 25 


998 


Galatiaxs. 


2 12 


313 


10 6 


27G 


15 25 


999 


1 4,5 


920 


2 14 


144 


10 6 


432 


15 34 


729 


2 9 


709 


2 20 


171 


10 9 


438 


15 42 


1091 


2 20 


824 


2 20 


221 


10 15 


205 


15 42 


1096 


2 20 


835 


2 20 


963 


10 15 


994 


15 45 


548 


3 1 


140 


3 8 


219 


11 4 


54 


15 52 


1094 


3 13 


31 


3 8 


851 


11 12 


982 


15 52 


HOD 


3 13 


151 


S 15 


956 


11 25 


985 


15 55 


148 


3 13 


289 


3 15 


957 


11 27 


501 


15 55 


152 


3 14 


254 


3 16 


809 


12 12 


512 15 55 


675 


3 23 


369 


3 17 


520 


12 15 


1033 15 55 


757 


3 28 


692 


3 17 


855 


14 8 


9Gl:i5 55 


1074 


3 28 


715 


3 18 


129 


14 9 


336 15 55 


1100 


4 6 


466 


3 18 


307 


14 11 


50 IG 9 


51 


4 6 


467 


3 18 


517 


14 U 


989 16 9 


1002 


4 6 


471 


3 18 


528 


14 12 


570' 




4 6 


472 


3 18 


800 


14 17 


214' n. Ck)R. 


4 6 


474 


3 18 


857 


14 17 


5921 1 22 


187 


4 6 


829 


3 19 


452 


14 17 


996 3 6 


191 


4 6 


882 


3 19 


800 


15 13 


1123 3 6 


857 


4 15 


858 


3 19 


833 


15 13 


1127 


3 15 


313 


4 15 


869 


4 1 


665 



734 



Ephesians. 



Ch. Ver. 
4 3 
4 8 
4 8 
4 8 
4 8 
4 11 

4 30 

5 2 



14 
14 
14 
14 
14 
14 
15 
27 



6 4 
6 10 
6 10 
6 11 
6 11 



6 11 
6 11 
6 11 
6 12 
6 16 
6 16 

Philippians. 



Hymn 

5y 

9 
148 
154 
514 
203 
810 
411 
305 
327 
380 
427 
721) 
8G1 
822 
225 

loll 

5n2 

7; 

575 

721 

722 

725 

720 

724 

720 

730 



6 

6 

10 

23 

23 

5 

5 

5 

7 

9 

11 

11 

13 

7 

7 

7 

14 

14 

14 

14 

14 



771 
1002 
15') 
674 
951 
403 

732 
445 
219 

50 
175 

99 
133 
145 
519 
504 
740 
823 
833 
886 



INDEX OF TEXTS. 

X. Timothy. 



Phtlippiaxs. 


Cli. Ver. 


Hytnn 


3 14 


935 


3 20 


571 


4 4 


495 


4 4 


899 


4 11 


782 


4 13 


653 



COLOSSIANS. 



1 14 

1 22 
1 
1 
3 
11 
11 
11 
U 
11 
11 
U 
11 
14 
16 
16 
16 



542 
575 
547 
840 

1120 
296 
5(J3 
530 
7O0 
850 
909 
917 

1004 

695 

9 

60 

446 



Hebrews. 



I. Thess. 



4 3 


481 


4 3 


4S2 


4 13 


640 


4 13 


1079 


4 13 


10S2 


4 14 


1081 


4 16 


899 


4 16 


1112 


4 16 


1115 


4 16 


1117 


4 17 


943 


4 17 


1122 


5 9 


393 


5 17 


577 


5 17 


728 


5 23 


159 


5 24 


486 


n. Thess. 


1 7,8 


1105 


1 7,8 


1114 


1 7,8 


1118 



Ch. Ver. 
1 15 
1 15 
1 17 
1 17 
1 17 



Hymn Ch. Ver. 
403 i 3 4 



1 17 

2 6 



431! 
102 

loo 

107 1 

108: 

621 
1741 
128 j 
445 

538; 

7211 
407 1 



7 

10 

10 

10 

13 

2 

9 



4 9 
4 9 



n. Timothy. 



2 3 
2 3 
2 3 



3 

12 

12 

12 

13 

5 

7 

7 

7 



572 

480 
576 
725 
726 
734 
152 
158 
925 
457 
857 
738 
1(.]53 
1086 
159 
699, 



Titus. 
13 
13 
14 



2 

3 2 
3 5 



159 
511 
416 
5')5 
295 
405 
4.31 



12 

12 

13 

14 

15 

16 

16 

9 

6 

6 

17 

18 

18 

18 

19 

19 

19 

3 

3 

25 

25 

25 

25 

25 

25 



Hebrews. 
1 3 



1 14 
1 14 

1 14 

2 17 
2 18 



9 5 
9 14 
9 24 
9 27 
9 27 
10 4 
757 10 4 
119 10 16 
109 10 20 
617 10 29 

850 10 29 

851 10 35 
103 11 5 
753 ill 13 



Ilyrrin 

08 
331 
413 
420 
422 
875 
857 
247 
251 
484 
318 
686 
73 
177 
163 
558 
559 
271 
340 
342 
515 
388 
405 
764 
437 
523 
750 
97 
172 
160 
106 
167 
381 
444 
474 
501 
551 
172 
286 
1067 
1072 
162 
309 
601 
144 
420 
427 
784 
869 
831 



INDEX OF TEXTS. 



r35 



HnnnKws. ! T. Peter. 



Ch. Ver. 
11 18 
11 13 
U 13 
11 13 
U 13 
11 16 
11 16 
11 16 
11 16 
11 17 

11 28 

12 I 
12 1 
12 2 
12 2 
12 2 
12 2 
12 2 
12 9 
12 23 
12 23 
12 24 
12 24 
12 24 

12 24 

13 5 
13 8 
13 8 
13 8 
13 8 
13 8 
13 9 
13 14 
13 15 
13 20 
13 20 
13 20 



llynin 
S3w> 
837 
927 
941 
953 
926 
928 
930 
931 
773 
164 
834 
1119 
158 
404 
435 
581 
749 
451 
222 
837 
167 
174 
434 
442 
89 
85 
390 
4()5 
788 
796 
855 
837 
53 
701 
1124 
1125 



James. 



1 17 
1 17 
1 17 
1 25 
1 27 
4 14 



99 
108 
754 
507 
629 
1058 



I. Peter. 
1 4 736 
1 8 914 
I Id 174 



Ch. Ver. 
1 19 

1 24 

2 3 
2 5 
2 6 
2 6 
2 21 
2 21 
2 22 
2 24 
2 24 
2 24 



24 

24 

3 

18 

18 

22 

3 

5 

12 

12 

12 

17 

7 

7 

7 

7 

10 



Hymn 
276 

1097 
573 
53 
959 
963 
55 
743 
137 
132 
133 
137 
370 
444 
533 
130 
743 
161 

1047 

1108 
553 
786 
787 

1017 
573 
576 
781 
913 
428 



n. Peter 



1 8 
1 10 
1 10 
1 19 
1 19 
1 21 

1 21 

2 21 

3 10 
3 U 
3 13 
3 13 



686 

591 

696 

324 

603 

679 

685 

867 

1118 

1119 

9 

1119 



I. John. 
1 1 459 
1 3 709 
1 5 37 
1 5 587 
1 7 1 



I. John. 



JUDE. 



Ch. Ver. 
1 7 


Hymn 
540 


Ch. Ver. 
1 20 


Ilymn 
700 


1 7 


720 


1 20 


711 


1 7 


842 


1 24 


881 


1 9 
1 9 


489 
495 


Revelation. 


2 1 


40 


1 5 


187 


2 1 


161 


1 6 


851 


2 1 


165 


1 7 


nil 


2 1 


166 


1 8 


97 


2 1 


167 


1 10 


250 


2 1 


173 


1 10 


594 


2 1 


739 


1 10 


596 


2 1, 2 


412 


1 12 


213 


3 2 


708 


1 14 


327 


3 3 


491 


2 4 


452 


3 3 


492 


2 4 


869 


3 3 


926 


2 4 


873 


3 8 


2(K) 


2 7 


213 


3 14 


459 


2 10 


9;58 


3 24 


201 


2 11 


335 


3 24 


460 


2 17 


164 


4 8 


3(J2 


2 28 


903 


4 8 


403 


3 4 


221 


4 8 


693 


3 4 


225 


4 16 


717 


3 4 


518 


4 17 


174 


3 4 


934 


4 18 


459 


3 4 


936 


5 4 


727 


3 10 


881 


5 4 


733 


3 12 


500 


5 6 


138 


3 14 


457 


5 7 


21 


3 15 


867 


5 7 


23 


3 17 


415 


5 7 


25 


3 17 


417 


5 7 


62 


3 19 


766 


5 7 


103 


3 20 


3 


5 7 


101 


3 20 


710 


5 7 


102 


4 8 


22 


5 7 


104 


4 8 


44 


5 7 


31»4 


4 8 


95 


5 7 


465 


4 8 


911 


57 


592 


4 10 


289 


5 10 


343 


4 10 


493 


5 10 


477 


4 10 


643 


5 11 


526 


5 6 


40 


5 19 


986 


5 6 


180 


JUDE. 


5 6 
5 6 


2i5 
27G 


1 12 


304 


5 6 


277 


1 12 


718 


5 6 


i(\5 


1 20 


696 


5 6 


412 



7H6 




INDEX OF TEXTS. 






Revelation. 


Reat:lation. 


Re\'elation. I Revel \TTow. 


Ch. Ver. 


Hymn 


Ch. Ver. 


Hymn 


Ch. Ver. 


Ilvrnn Ch. Ver. 


Ilynm 


5 6 


938 


7 11 


18 


14 13 


1U77 


21 1 


1) 


5 6 


973 


7 13 


930 


14 13 


1078 


21 1 


1119 


5 8 


175 


7 13 


947 


15 3 


204 


21 2 


837 


5 11 


4 


7 13 


948 


15 3 


880 


21 2 


939 


5 12 


4, 7 


7 14 


440 


15 4 


72 


21 2 


942 


5 12 


178 


7 14 


534 


10 17 


1110 


21 2 


1110 


5 12 


ISO 


7 14 


933 


19 1 


40 


21 4 


1119 


12 


887 


7 15 


21 


19 4 


175 


21 5 


498 


5 13 


21 


7 17 


701 


19 6 


1004 


21 6 


284 


5 13 


75G 


7 17 


955 


19 6 


1000 


21 6 


345 


6 9 


1000 


8 13 


1110 


19 9 


10 


21 6 


498 


6 U 


1109 


9 20 


973 


19 9 


274 


21 22 


901 


6 16 


1107 


11 15 


Km 


19 9 


440 


22 ir2 


227 


7 9 


17G 


11 15 


1005 


19 9 


719 


22 4 


95 


7 9 


708 


11 15 


1105 


19 13 


51 


22 5 


931 


7 9 


93G 


14 2 


41 


19 13 


205 


22 5 


940 


7 9 


9o8 


14 4 


756 


19 16 


158 


22 17 


284 


7 10 


291 


14 4 


802 


19 16 


177 


22 17 


291 


7 10 


904 


14 13 


1070 


19 16 


632 


12 17 


345 



INDEX OF VERSES. 



The figures refer to the Page. 



A feaam from heaven is 646 
Ab-okenheartjinyGod 249 
A clod of living earth. . 391 
A cloud of witnesses ar 494 
A country of joy withou 571 
A dark and cloudy day 634 
A faith that doth the 263 
A faith that keeps the 342 
A faith that shines more 342 
A Father's hand we felt 531 
A glance of thine runs 71 
A gracious Saviour,thou 593 
A guilty, weak, and hel 195 
A heart iu every thought 302 
A heart resign'd, submis 301 
A heart with grief oppr 225 
A holy quiet reigns aro 650 
A horror of great dark 87 
A land of corn, and wine, 296 
A pardon written with 212 
A patient, a victorious 487 
A poor blind child I wa 252 
A rest where all our so 291 
A sacred spring, at thy 141 
A Saviour bom, in love 79 
A sinner welt'ring in his 190 
A sov'reign Protector I 369 
A thousand ages,in their 55 
A thousand ages, in thy 636 
A world where angela 454 
Abrah'm and Isaac, ther 138 
Absent from thee, my 519 
According to his word 676 
Afflction IS a stormy de 462 
Aflliction's blast hath 532 
Affliction's deepest gloo 545 
Aft«r my lowly Lord to 141 
Again my pardon seal 518 
Agonizing in the garden 205 
Ah ! give me. Lord, my 193 
Ah ! give me, Lord, tho 517 
Ah ! give me this to kn 318 
Ah! how shall guilty 189 
Ah ! leave us not to mo 115 
Ah 1 no, I still may turn 204 
Ah ! what avail my str 256 
Ah ! what avails superi 450 
Ah I wherefore did I ev 220 
Ah! whither could we 332 
All* whither shall I fly? 195 
All glory be to God on 73 
All hail, triumphant Lo 151 
All honour, power, and 114 
All my disease, my eve 194 
All my hopes on thee de 457 
All nature smgs thy bo 409 
All needful grace will 23 
All our works iu thee be 426 
All power to our great 100 
All praise to thee, who 359 
All the day long he me 206 
All the power of ein rem 165 



All things are possible to 293 
All things are ready, co 162 
All the tokens of his pa 669 
Almighty God, thine in 603 
Almighty Godj thy gra 596 
Almighty Son,mcarnate 44 
Alone the dreadful race 96 
Already springing hope 256 
Although the vine its fr 467 
Among the saints on ear 412 
An imregenerate child 190 
And all the good that 124 
And art thou not the Sa 194 
And dost thou deign to 523 
And duly shall appear 132 
And from his love's ex 108 
And hark, amidst the sa 608 
And hence in spirit may 581 
And if our fellowship be 424 
And if the sons of God 591 
And if thy grace vouch 492 
And in the ^reat decisiv 581 
And may this day, indul 358 
And not a prayer, a tear, 370 
And now, in age and gri 401 
And now, in kind compa 398 
And, 0, when gathers 448 
And, O, when the whi 626 
And shalll slight my Fa 286 
And shall we long and 10 
And since, by passion's 378 
And soon, too soon, the 604 
And that I never more 482 
And thou, O ever gracio 39 
And thou, that, when th 381 
And thou wilt turn our 372 
And though thy wisdom 453 
And when before thy th 449 
And when our spirits we 505 
Andwhen the last dread 472 
And when these failing 163 
And when this life is pas 625 
And when, thro' grace 442 
And when thy purity we 66 
And when with heart 43 
And while I rest my we 367 
And while we to thy glo 484 
And while we thus obey 620 
And why, great God, are 610 
And will this sov'reign 53 
Angel of gospel grace 105 
Angel powers the thron 558 
Angels, assist our might 85 
Angels catch the' appro 648 
Angels, joj'ful to attend 401 
Angels now are hov'ring 544 
Angels our servants are 506 
Angels, where'er we go 504 
Anger I nc more shall 322 
Answer on him thy wis 158 
Appear, and my sorrow 219 
Appear, as when of old 37 

47 



Apostles join the glono 85 
Apostles, martyrs, prop 663 
Approacu his royal boa 169 
Array 'd in glorious grae 659 
Are there no foes for me 438 
Are we not tending upw 657 
Arise, and bless the Lor 15 
Arise, O God, exert thy 134 
Arm me with jealous ca 343 
Art thou not touch'd wi 449 
As by ^.he light of open 479 
As giHiits may they run 131 
As in the ancient days 145 
As o'er a parch'd and 459 
As roimd about Jerusal 142 
As roimd Jerusalem... 143 
As soon as in him we be 171 
As the apple of thine eye 524 
As the bright Sun of rig 131 
As the winged arrow ffi 630 
As thee their God our fja 616 
As through a glass we 499 
As thy command ordain 595 
As we thy mercy-seat 24 
As welcome as the wat 459 
Ashamed of Jesus I that 483 
Ashamed of Jesus ! yes 483 
Ask but his grace, and 175 
Assembled here with on 115 
Assert thy claim, maint 326 
Assure my conscience of 278 
Astonish'd at thy frown 58 
At Jesus's call, we gave 571 
At last I own it cannot 247 
At thy command we ris 543 
At thy rebuke the bloom 637 
Attended by that sa«red 436 
Author and Guardian of 385 
Author of faith, to thee I 244 
Author of our new crea 124 
Awake, awake my tune 538 
Awake, awake^ put on 142 
Awake from guilty natu 184 
Awake, my tongue ; aw 547 
Awed by a mortal's fro 391 
Awhile m flesh disjoin'd 571 

Back from the borders of 396 
Baptize the nations ; far 123 
Barren and wither'd tre 633 
Be all my added life em 22 i 
Be darkness, at thy com 123 
Be it accordmg to thy w 191 
Be it according to thy w 225 
Be it according to thy w 289 
Be this my one great bu 639 
Be ours the bliss, in wis 603 
Be still, and know that 483 
Be this, O Lord^ that ho 681 
Be thou my shield and 246 
Be thou my strength— 348 
Be thou, O Rock of ages 45i 



738 



INDEX OF VERSES. 



Before Ms feet they cast 
Before me place, in dre 
Before my faith's enligh 
Before our Father's thr 
Before the great Three 
Before the hills in ord<» r 
Before the radiance of 
Before the Saviour's fac 
Before them set an open 
Before thy sheep, great 
Before thy throne we ho 
Before us make thy good 
Behold, again we turn to 
Behold, fast streaming 
Behold, for me the Vict 
Behold him, all ye that 
Behold his temples, cro 
Behold the Lamb of God 
Behold the sorrows of 
Behold this fair and fer 
Behold thy pris'ner; — 
Behold, we fall before 
Behold, what heavenly 
Behold your Lord, your 
Being of beings ! may 
Believe in Him who di 
Believing on my Lord, I 
Beloved for Jesus' sake 
Beneath thy shadow let 
Better than my boding 
Better than life itself, th 
Better that we had nev 
Beyond my highest joy 
Beyond the bounds of ti 
Beyond the flight of time 
Beyond the reach of mor 
Beyond this vale of tears 
Bless we, then, our grac 
Blessing, and thanks, an 
Blest be that Name, sup 
Blest is the pious house 
Blest object of our faith 
Blest Saviour ! introduc 
Blest Saviour, what deli 
Blind unbelief is sure to 
Bold shall I stand in thy 
Bom by a new, celestial 
Bom into the world abo 
Bom they are, as we, in 
Bome aloft on angels' w 
Bome upon their latest 
Bow to the sceptre of his 
Bow'd down beneath a 
Break, break, O Lord, 
Break from his throne, 
Break off the yoke of in 
Break off your tears, ye 
Break Thou, O break 
Breathe, O breathe thy 
Breathe on us. Lord, in 
Bright Sun of righteous 
Bright terrors guard thy 
Bring us again to pay our 
Built by the word of his 
Bum every breast with 
Burst thy snackles, drop 
But, above all, afraid.. 
Bat after aU that I have 
But art thou not already 
But all, before they hen 
But all the notes which 
But angels themselves 
But both in Jesus join 
But can nc sovereign ba 
H-t Christ can heal that 



But drops of grief can 94 
But he that turns to God 201 
But I of means have ma 510 
But if thou leave thy God 209 
But in thy Father's own 604 
But lo ! a place he hath 528 
Butlo! the Scriptures' 407 
But now, when evening 517 
But, O, the jealous God 267 
But, O, when doubts pr 456 
But, 0, when that last 550 
But our brief life's a sha 55 
But power divine can do 226 
But saints are lovely in 58 
But shall believers fear 433 
But should the surges ri 467 
But soon he '11 break de 87 
But still their most exal 547 
But sweeter far the still 393 
But tears I will not plea 242 
But, that my faith no 271 
But the mild glories of 48 
But the righteousness of 261 
But there 's a voice of 194 
But thou art not alone . 153 
But thou hast brethren 619 
But thou, O Lord, art 458 
But thou, soul-searching 370 
But though earth's fair 636 
But though from his aw 665 
But though my life hen 218 
But thy right hand, thy 616 
But we, frail sojourners 576 
But we, who now our 672 
But when we view thy 61 
But who shall quit this 54 
But will, indeed, Jehova 577 
But with the eye of faith 398 
But with thee is mercy 243 
By cool Siloam's shady 604 
By day, along the' asto 448 
By death and hell pursu 146 
By every name of power 240 
By faith I plunge me in 264 
By faith the upper choir 63 
By faith we are come . . 560 
By faith we already beh 3J1 
By faith we know thee 263 
By faith we now transc 672 
By faith we see the glo 526 
By me, my Saviour, sta 523 
By the deep, expiring gr 340 
By the tenderness that 239 
By thee, on earth, we 282 
By thee the victory is 61 
By thee through life su 384 
By these may I be war 406 
By thine all-atoning mer 222 
By thine agonizing pain 170 
By thine hour of dark 340 
By thy divine, transfor 236 
By thy famting in the 393 
By thy hands the boon 383 
By thy lonely hour of 239 
By thy meek spirit, thou 381 
By thy most severe tern 393 
By thy reconciling love 419 
By thy Spirit, Lord, re 231 
By thy tnumph o'er the 239 
By wise master-builders 578 

Call them into thy won 140 
Call, while he may be 208 
Can aught but power di 188 
Can these avert the wr 218 



Cast as a broken vessel 
Cast out thy foes, and le 
Cause us the record to 
Cease — cease, ye vain 
Cease, ye pilgrims, cea 
Cheer'd by that witness 
Children our kind prote 
Chosen of God, to sinne 
Christ, by highest heav 
Christ is bom, the great 
Christ is that stone, rej 
Christ, our Brother and 
Christ our Lord and Go 
Christ shall bless thy go 
Circled round with ang 
Close by its banks, in or 
Close by thy side still 
Closer and closer let us 
Clothe me, Lord, with 
Cold, on his cradle, th 
Come, all by guilt oppr 
Come, almighty to deli 
Come, all ye souls, by 
Come, and' possess me 
Come and worship at hi 
Come back ! this is the 
Come, Desire of nations 
Come, extend thy wont 
Come, Father, Son, and 
Come, holy Comforter. 
Come, Holy Ghost, all 
Come, Holy Ghost, for, 
Come, Holy Ghost, my 
Come, Holy Ghost, the 
Come, Holy Ghost, thy 
Come, Holy Spirit, hea 
Come in, come in, thou 
Come, in soitow and co 
Come in this accepted 
Come in thy pleading 
Come, let us, with a gr 
Come, Lord, thy love al 
Come, Lord, thy gloriou 
Come, O my comfort an 
Come, O my God, thys 
Come, O my Saviour, co 
Come quickly in, thou 
Come, Saviour, come, an 
Come the great day, th 
Come, then, divine Inte 
Come then, for Jesus' sa 
Come then, my hope, 
Come then, with all yo 
Come, thou incarnate "VV 
Come, thou witness of h 
Come to the living wat 
Come, tune afresh you 
Come, wand'rers, to my 
Come, worship at his th 
Come, ye dying, live fo 
Come, ye weary, heavy 
"Com.fort those who wee 
Confiding wholly in thy 
Confound, o'erpower me 
Convert and send forth 
Convince him now of im 
Con^•ince us first of unb 
Conqu'ror of hell, and ea 
Content with beholding 
Contented now, upon my 
Control ray every thoug 
Could my tears forevei 
Could we but climb who 
Could we,^ on morning's 
Counting gain and glory 



27 
657 
653 
283 
603 
575 

80 

74 
150 
557 

37 
hi^ 

lot 

141 
451 
677 
251 

76 
216 
300 
210 
258 

78 
512 

81 
222 
314 

22 
495 
405 



120 
423 



36 
589 
319 
297 
314 
9 
299 

18 
408 
252 
221 
178 

22 
168 
212 
533 
173 

IS 
208 
205 

41 
482 
303 
129 
197 
198 
320 
539 
389 
437 
247 
664 

51 



INDEX OF VERSE B. 



739 



Corruption, earth, and 
Courage, my soul ; on 
Oiurttge, my soul ; thy 
Creation, varied by his 
Creatures no more divid 

Dangers stand thick thr 
Dark and cheerless is th 
Day of glory, day of po 
Dear Name, the rock 
Decay, then, tenements 
Death enters, and there 
D<!ath, hell, and sin, are 
Death may the bands of 
Death rides on every ^a 
Defend me in this tryin 
Deep in unfathomable 
Deep on my heart let 
Deliv'rance to my soul 
Depend on him; thou 
Dread aJarma shall sha 
juLScend, and let thy li 
Descending on liis great 
Determined all thy will 
Did ever mourner plead 
Didst thou not die that 
Didst thou not in our fle 
Didst thou not in the fle 
Didst thou not make us 
Direct, control, suggest, 
Distracting thoughts an 
Divine Instructor, graci 
Do good, Lord, do go 
Do thou assist a feeble 
Dost thou desire to kuo 
Dost thou not dweU in 
Down from his throne 
^ Down from the shining 
' Down through the port 
Dust and ashes though 
Dying, I heard the wel 

Each care, each ill of 
Each evening shows thy 
Each moment draw fro 
Each thought and deed 
ELiiger for thee I ask an 
Earth, fron?. afar, hath 
Earih is thy footst-wl ma 
Earth is thine ; her tho 
Earth, tremble on, with 
Eartbiy joys no longer 
Easy to be entreated, 
E'en now, by faith, we 
E'en now he hath hear 
E'en now we think and 
E'en now, when tempes 
E'er since, by faith, Isa 
Empty of Him who all 
Endless life in him pos 
Endless scenes of wond 
Endow them with a he 
Enter into the Rock. . . 
Enter thyself, and cast 
Ent'ring into my closet, 
Eiithroned amid the ra 
Equal strains of warm 
Error and ignorance re 
Eternal are thy mercies 
Etemal God, celestial 
Eternal life to all raank 
Etemal Source of truth 
Et«mal Spirit, by v/hose 
Eternal Spirit, from on 
Gtera.f] Sui of rjg'i»-jau 



Etemal Triune Lord. . . 538 
Etemal, undivided Lord 239 
Etemal Wisdom hath 181 
Eternity comes in the so 6*24 
Even.' eye shall now be 669 
Every liuman tie may 146 
Exert thy sacred influe 651 
Expand thy wings, Cel 405 
Extend to me that favcu 16 
Extol his kingly power 441 
Extol the Lamb of God 180 
Extol the Lttmb with lo 10 
Exults our rising soul. . 276 
Eye hath not seen, nor 506 

Faded my virtuous sho 268 
Fain witli them our sou 68 
Fain would I all thy go 385 
Fain would I know, as 193 
Fain would I leam of 307 
Fain would I rise and si 47 
Fair land ! could mortal 553 
Faith cries out, — It is 380 
Faith grasps the blessin 393 
Faith in thy changeless 194 
Faith in thy power, thou 265 
Faith lends its realizing 263 
Faith, mighty faith, the 265 
Faith sees the bright, et 657 
Faith to be heal'd thou 257 
Faithful, O Lord, thy 179 
Faithful soul, pray alwa 338 
Far, far above all earth 518 
Far from the paths of 385 
Far off the Father saw 260 
Farewell, conflicting ho 651 
Father, and shall we ev 120 
Father, God, thy love 20 
Father, if such tny sov 158 
Father, in me reveal thy 2S3 
Father, in these reveal 156 
Father, in us thy Son re 24 
Father of endless majes 34 
Father of everlasting lo 585 
Father of the fatherless 899 
Father, regard thy plea 337 
Father, Son, and'Hol;^ 426 
Father, Son, and Spirit 576 
Father, the narrow path 493 
Father, thine everlastin 26-1 
Father, thy long-lost so 23S 
Father, thy mercies pas 633 
Father, thy quick 'ning 30 
Father, to us vouchsafe 652 
Father, we ask in Jesus 337 
Fear not, brethren, joyf 497 
Fear not, said he, for mi 73 
Fear not, though hostUe 139 
Fearless of hell and gha ^7 
Fill me with all the life ^3 
Fill'd with delight, my 555 
Fill'd with holy emula 11 
Find in Christ the way 207 
Finish then thy new ere 300 
Firm as his tiirone his 482 
Firm, faithful, watching 344 
Firm in the all-destroy 669 
First the dead in Clirist 670 
Five bleeding wounds 285 
Fix my new heart on th 377 
Fix, O'fix my wav'ring 321 
Fix'd on this ground wu 470 
Flow, wondrous stream 141 j 
Follow'd by their works 648 | 
Foolish, and impotent, 455 , 



For each assauK ^epar 
For friends and brethren 
For God has mark'd eac 
For God made flesh is 
For her my tears shall 
For his truth and mercy 
For Jesus, my Lord, is 
For Jesus' sake alone. . 
For love like this, let 
For me the burden to su 
For me these pangs his 
For more ■we .I'-V • we 
For my selfishness txtid 
For never shall my soul 
For the great Mediator 
For thee delightfully em 
I For thee, my God — the 
j For thee my thirsty soul 
I For thee the Saviour euf 
I For them that heavenly 
I For these inestimable ga 
For thine own compassi 
For this, as taught by 
For this let men revile 
For this the earth its pr 
For this the saints lift up 
For this thou hast desig 
For thou art in their mi 
For thou art their boast 
For thou of life the foun 
For thou, within no wall 
For though mysterious 
For what to thee, O Lor 
For who by faith your 
For whom didst thou the 
For wild the waves of 
For you the purple curr 
For zeal I sigh, for zeal 
Forbid it. Lord, that I sh 
Forbid them not, whom 
Forever with the Lord, 
Forgive me. Lord, for 
Forgiveness on my con 
Forerunner of the sun. . 
Forth with thy chosen 
Foimtain of unexhauste 
Free from anger and fru 
Friend of the friendless 
From all iniquity, from 
From Christ, the smitte 
From Christ, they aU th 
From dark temptation's 
From death to life our 
From each extreme div 
From every place below 
From every sinful wrin 
From favour'd Abrah'ra 
From heaven angelic vo 
From heaven he came. 
From heaven he shall 
From his high throne, in 
From little ones to Jesus 
From mom till noon — ti 
From north to south the 
From sea to sea, from 
From sin, the guilt, the 
From sin, the world, an 
From sorrow, toil, and 
From strength to streng 
From thee that I no mo 
From thee, through Jes 
From thy house when 
Full of immortal hope.. 
Fully ill my life express 
Gather the outcasts i:i, 



512 
155 
446 

68 
147 

15 
275 
231 
410 

89 



520 
21-) 
678 

37e 

51g 
359 
216 
619 
408 
229 
329 
389 

48 
183 

52 
397 
275 
490 

40 
454 
461 
499 
449 
379 



364 
231 
19a 
594 
512 
420 
451 
280 
275 
127 
335 
117 
392 
44 
140 
5gS 
665 
173 
125 

ns 
et; 

fey 
598 
597 
312 
3V-3 
425 
435 
348 
66 
34 
570 



740 



INDEX OF VERSES. 



Gave my repentant sou 
Gethscmane can I forge 
«^ive me a holy fear. . . 
Give me a new, a perfe 
Give me en thee to call 
Give me to bear thy ea 
Give me to trust in thee 
Give me thy strength, 
Give me thyself; from 
Give the pure word of 
Give them an ear to he 
Give thou the word ; th 
Give to mine eyes refre 
Give tongues of fire, an 
Give up ourselves, thro 
Give us ourselves and 
Give us this day our da 
Give us with active wa 
Giver of penitential pai 
Glory to God above. . . . 
Glorj' to God belongs. . 
Glory to God, in full an 
Glory to thee, O God m 
Go into every nation, go 
Go, meet him in the sky 
Go to many a tropic isle 
Go to shine before the th 
Go to the ants ! for one 
Go up with Christ your 
God calms the tumult 
God forbids his lunger 
God in creation thus di 
God is in heaven, and 
God is our strength and 
God is our sun, lie mak 
God leads me through 
God my Redeemer live 
God of love, in this thy 
God of our fathers, hear 
Gcd only knows the lov 
God ruleth on high, aim 
God, through himself, 
God's guardian shield 
Good, when he gives — 
Grace all the work sha 
Grace first contrived a 
Grace, in answer to his 
Grace taught my roving 
Gracious art thou to all 
Grave, the guardian of 
Grant, Lord, that we 
Grant me now the bliss 
Grant one pocr sinner 
Grant that all may seek 
Grant that every mome 
Grant, then, this one re 
Grant this, and then fro 
Grant this, O holy God 
Grant us the power of 
Great Comforter, desce 
Great God, and wilt th 
Great God, impress this 
Great God, in whom we 
Great God, is this our ce 
Great God, our guardia 
Great God, preserve us 
Great God, we bail the 
Great God, what do I 
Great is our guilt, our 
Great Prophet of our G 
Great Shepherd of thy 
Great Sov'reign, we ad 
Greatness unspeakable 
Guide of my lilt- hast tit 
'auiiiy I ttiin.! 'lefnre th 



Had I such faith in God 
Hail ! by all thy works 
Hail! great Immanuel, 
Hail, glorious day — ex 
Hail, holy, holy, holy 
Hail, Jesus! all-victori 
Hail ! Prince of life, for 
Hail! Source of light! 
Hail ! the heaven-born 
Hallelujah! earth and 
Hallelujah! hark! the 
Hallelujah ! they cry.. 
Hang on thy arm alone 
Happy, beyond descrip 
Happy, if with my late 
Happy only in thy love 
Happy the man who wi 
Happy the man whose 
Happy they whose joys 
Hark! how he groans, 
Hark ! in the wildemes 
Hark ! the cherubic ar 
Hark ! they whisper : 
Hast thou been with me 
Hast thou not died to 
Hast thou not heard of 
Hast thou not often call 
Hasten, Lord, the perfe 
Hasten mercy to implor 
Hasten, mortals, to ado 
Hasten, sinner, to be bl 
Hasten, sinner, to retur 
Hasten the joyful day.. 
Have mercy on our fail 
Have pity on my fears 
He all his foes shall qu 
He bids us build each o 
He breaks the power of 
He by himself hath sw 
He clothes thee with hi 
He comes, he comes, to 
He comes, from thickes 
He comes, his graces to 
He comes, of hellish ma 
He comes, the broken h 
He comes ! the Conqu'r 
He comes, the pris'ner 
He comes, with succour 
He ever lives above.... 
He ever lives for me to 
He fills whom first he 
He form'd the deeps un 
He form'd the stare, th 
He framed the globe ; 
He gave to the light its 
He hears the uncompla 
He hung its starry roof 
He, in the days of feeb 
He justly claims us for 
He keeps his own secur 
He left his Father's tli 
He lives, all glory to hi 
He lives, and grants me 
Ho lives to bless and sa 
He lives to bless me wi 
He makes the grass the 
He now stjuids knockin 
He only can the words 
He reigns above the sk 
He rests well pleased 
He rises, who mankind 
He eat serene upon the 
He shall descend like 
He shall obtain the sta 
II* shnll reign tVcm pol 



He sits at God's righ MJ4 
He speaks, and, list'nin 7 
He still th( ancient pro 159 
He tells us fv^e 're weak 444 
He that ha;h pity on th 619 
He took into his hands 160 
?Ie took the dying trait 84 
He wept that we migh 228 
He who for men did we 98 
He who, so patiently.. 98 
He wills that I should 290 
Headlong we cleave th 624 
Hear and save me, gra 396 
Hoar, for thou, O Christ 31 
Hear him, ye deaf; his 1 
Hear, O hear our suppl 123 
Hear thou our prayers, 610 
Heavenly, all-alluring 426 
Heavenly Father, life 280 
Heavenly Guide from 126 
Heavenward our every 32 
Heirs of the same immo 412 
He '11 never quench the 104 
Help us to build each 410 
Help us to help each ot 416 
Help us to make our ca 355 
Help us to see the Savi 43 
Help us, with holy fear 26 
Helpless, howe'er my 192 
Hence may all our acti 430 
Hence our hearts melt, 319 
Hence sprang the apost 127 
Hence, ye vain cares an 148 
Henceforth may no prof 305 
Henceforth our converse 556 
Henceforth to thee mys 481 
Her hands are fiU'd wit 178 
Her portion in those rea 464 
Here at that cross, whe 478 
Here freedom spreads 613 
Here I'll raise mine Ebe 535 
Here I would forever st 176 
Here in the body pent. 563 
Here in their house of pi 411 
Here, in thine own app 483 
Here let our feet abide. 107 
Here let the hlind their 24 
Here let the great Red 581 
Here let the voice of sa 25 
Here light descending 403 
Here may our unborn so 578 
Here may the list'ning 578 
Here may the wretched 403 
Here may thine ears att 578 
Here may thy faithful 165 
Here may thy truth fres 580 
Here pardon, life, and 171 
Here, Saviour, deign th 580 
Here see the bread of 183 
Here the dark veils of 499 
Here the fair tree of kn 404 
Here the Redeemer's 404 
Here the whole Deity is 61 
Here then I d. ubt no mo 529 
Here, then, my God,vo 536 
Here, then, to thee thin 492 
Here to thee a temple 579 
Here will I set up my 478 
Here, with the' assemb 53i 
Here's love and grief be 9£ 
High Heaven, thai hear 271 
High is thy power ^bove 70 
High :n his holy seat.. 101 
High x-r. thy Father's th 31 u 
High throned on hparen 58 



INDEX O? VKRSES. 



741 



Him by laith we uxste 170 
Him eye to eye we ther 4-22 
Him though highest he 100 
Him to know is life and 477 
Himself prepares his pe 132 
His attribut«o divinely 71 
His blood demands the 65 
His comforts bear me up 471 
His freed affections rise 556 
His glory our design ... 277 
His goodness ever nigh 545 
His government shall gr 79 
His grace and mercy tr 462 
His grace is most unsea 71 
His heart no broken fri 500 
His infant cries proclaim 80 
His kingdom cannot fail 533 
His love surpassing far 276 
His love within us shed 121 
His militant embodied 573 
His name shall be the 78 
His name the sinner he 185 
His name yields the ric 539 
His only righteousness 137 
His power, increasing, st 78 
HLs precious blood was 169 
HLs purposes will ripen 445 
His sacred limbs they st 90 
His son the father offer' 461 
His sov'reign power our 
His sov'reign power, wi 16 
His Spirit, which he gav 277 
His vict'ry hath destroy 98 
His voice sublime is hea 54 
His witness within, bv 126 
His word did out of noth 
His words the happy pa 643 
His work my hoary age 485 
Ho ! all ye hungry, star 181 
Ho ! ye that pant for liv 181 
Hold on thy way, with 446 
Holv Ghost, no more de 280 
Holy Ghost, the Comfor 119 
Holy, holy, holy Lord 72 
Homeward bound ! with 583 
Honour, and might, and 271 
Horrors all hearts appal 666 
Hosanna, on the wings 606 
Hosanna, sound from hil 606 
Hosanna, then, our song 606 
How beauteous nature 362 
^ow blessed are our ey 128 
How blest are they who 318 
How can it be, thou hea 318 
How careful then ought 666 
How charming is their 128 
How excellent, Lord, 49 
riow gentle was the rod 531 
How good thou art 1 ho 530 
How great the riches of 83 
How great thy mercies 157 
How happy are our ears 128 
How happy the angels 654 
Hmv happy the man wh 275 
How happy the people 569 
How long. Lord, shall I 240 
How long shall Jacob's 588 
How oft they loak to the 284 
How oft, when dark mi 532 
How often, when his ar 628 
How rich the depths of 172 
How shall I leave my 641 
How shall I meet this 398 
How shall polluted mor 71 
How shall weak ey is of 246 



How short my euff'ring 469 
How should our songs, 36 
How strange, jtow won 70 
How swift to save me 459 
How then ought I on ea 643 
How vain a toy is glitt' 540 
How would my fainting 245 
Humbly on thee I wait 259 

I ask in confidence the 341 
I ask no higher sta,te.. . 313 
I ask the blood- bought 323 
I ask them whence thei 556 
I calmly bow'd my fain 396 
I can but perish if I go 217 
I cannot rest till in thy 312 
I cannot wash my heart 252 
I cast my care on thee. 543 
I come, if thou my stre 394 
I come, thy servant, Lo 562 
I deprecate that death 233 
I find him liftuig up my 290 
I hate my sins, no longe 307 
I have long withstood 244 
I have no skill the snare 455 
I have the things I ask 340 
I hear thy word in love 406 
I hold thee with a trem 47? 
I, I alone have done the 88 
I know in thee all fuln 188 
I know the work is only 225 
I know thee, Saviour, 388' 
I laid me down and slep 528 j 
I lay my body down t-^ 366 [ 
I lift mine eyes to thee 294 ' 
I loathe myself when G 242 j 
I long to see thy face. . 514 
I look to my incarnate 292 ' 
I love by faith to take a 386 ' 
I love in solitude to shed 386 
I love the Lord ; he bo 525 
I love thy Church, O Go 147 
I love to think on mere 386 
I magniiy thy gracious 271 
I may not to thy courts 397 
I must the fair example 374 
I need not tell thee who 387 
I now believe, in thee.. 217 
I now from all my sins 230 
I now would feel thy 310 
I, of such fellowship be 397 
I pay this evening sacri 367 
I perish, and my doom 236 
I rest beneath the Almi 529 
I rest in thine almighty 
I rest upon thy word. . . 347 
I rested in the outward 509 
I'll go to Jesus, though 216 
I'll lift my hands, I'll ra 285 
I'll make your great co 127 
I'll praise him while he 550 
I see the exceeding broa 312 
I see the perfect law re 509 
I shall fully be restored 322 
I shall nothing know be 322 
I shall suffer and fulfil. 322 
I shall then show forth 488 
I shall triumph evermor 322 
I sigh to think of happi 513 
I sink, if thou longer de 253 
I starve, he cries, nor ca 2o9 
I tiike thee at thy graci 255 
I take these little lambs 643 
I thank thee for the pre 340 
I, too, with thee, shall 312 



I tremble, lest the wrat 233 
I trust in thy eternal wo 638 
I wait my vigour to rene 483 
I wait thy will to do. . . 392 
I wait till he shall touch 289 
I want a godly fear. . . . 347 
I want a sober mind . . . 346 
I want a true regard ... 347 
I want the witness. Lor 31? 
I want thy life, thy pur 329 
I ■will accept his oft'era 204 
I will improve what I 204 
I will not fear, though 528 
I will not let thee go, un 334 

I wonder and adore 520 

I would be thine ; but, 222 
I would be thine ; I wo 222 
I would, but thou must 307 
I would not live alway ; 6G8 
I would not sigh for wo 485 
I would not to thy foe 190 
I would submit to all th 281 
I would thy boundless 178 
I yield my heart to thee 357 
I yield myself to thy co 364 
If aught can there enha 620 
If, drawn by thine allur 226 
If earthly parents hear. 116 
If every one that asks 115 
If, for tny sake, upon my 449 
If he our ways should 189 
If I have only knoMm 282 
If I have tasted of thv 345 
If in this darksome wild 489 
If in this feeble flesh I 490 
If mercy cannot draw. . 231 
If mercy is uideed vriih 496 
If near the pit I rashly 346 
If now the witness were 283 
If now thine influence I 330 
If now thou staudest at 666 
If now thou talkest by 224 
If on the wuigs of mora 65 
If pain afflict, or wrongs 331 
If pure essential love th 427 
If rough and thorny be 489 
If sang the morning sta 591 
If sin be pardon'd, I'm 645 
If BO poor a worm as I 31 6 
If sometimes I strive, as 218 
If sorrow would suffice 242 
If such a worm as I can 490 
If such the sweetness of 395 
If thou hast call'd me to 522 
If thou shouldst quickly 159 
If thou the secret wish 105 
If thou these blessings 337 
If thou wilt seek his fa 209 
If to the right or left I st 845 
If to the right or left I 

stray, That moment 349 
If to the right or left we 416 
If what I wish is good 529 
If yet, while pardon ma 219 
Implant it deep within 306 
In a dry land, behold, I 359 
In all my ways thy hand 455 
In all our Maker's gran 53 
In all the times of my di 459 
In blessing thee with gr 35S 
In condescending love. . 652 
In darkest shades, if th 531 
In each event of life,how 373 
In error's maze my soal 545 
In every joy that crown 371 



H2 



INDEX OF VERSES. 



In every land begin the 
In every new distress. . 
In every tempting, tryi 
In fellowship alone. . . . 
In fierce temptation's da 
In tlesh we part awhile 
In foreign realms, and la 
In God we put our trust 
In heaven the rapt'rous 
lu heaver thou reign'st 
[la him we have peace, 
In his great Name alone 
In holy duties, let the d 
In hope, believing agai 
*n hope of that immortal 
In Jesus' name behold 
[n light unsearchable en 
In manifested love expl 
In me thine utmost mer 
In me thy Spirit dwell 
In mercy, now, for Jesu 
In midst of dangers, tea 
In native white and red 
In one fratenial band of 
In our Redeemer's name 
In panoply of truth com 
In part we know thy wi 
In prayer my soul drew 
In safety lead thy little 
In shining white they st 
In spite of our resolves 
In suflfring be thy love 
In that lone land of dee 
In the furnace God may 
In the midst of afHiction 
In the rite thou hast enj 
In thee, O Lord, I put 
In them let all mankind 
In them may'st thou be 
In thine all gracious pro 
In this identic body, I . 
xu those dark, silent rea 
In thy holy incarnation 
In thy pavilion to abide 
In thy revealing Spirit 
In trouble's dark and st 
In vain may guilt attem 
In vain the stone, the 
In vain thou strugglest 
In vain we tune our for 
In want, my plentiful su 
In wisdom infinite thou 
In Zion God is known. . 

Incarnate Deity 

Infinite joy, or endless 
Infinite strength and eq 
Insatiate to this spring 
Inspired with praise, ma 
Into temptation lead us 
Into that happy number 
Into thy hands, my Sav 
Inured to poverty and 
Is crucified for me and 
Is here a soul that kno 
Is not e'en death a gain 
Is not thy grace as mig 
Is there a thing beneat 
Is there a thuig than life 
It beam'd on Eden's gui 
It cost thy blood my he 
It hallows every cross ; 
Itisfinish'dlOwhatpl 
It makes the wounded 
It runs divinely clear. . 
It stands eecui ely high 



It sweetly cheers om- dr 40'' 

Its energy exert 41C 

Its pleasures can no Ion 479 
Its sacred shrine it fixes 580 
Its streams the whole cr 119 



Jehovah, Christ, I thee 
Jehovah, Father, Spirit 
Jehovah, God the Son 
Jehovah, God the Spiri 
Jehovah, in three perso 
Jerusalem ! my happy 
Jesus, accept our sacriti 
Jesus all the day long 
Jesus, attend ; thyselj 
Jesus can make a dying 
Jesus, confirm my hear 
Jesus, descended from a 
Jesus, for this we calmly 
Jesus, Friend of human 
Jesus, full of tnith and 
Jesus, hail! enthroned 
Jesus ! harmonious nam 
Jesus hath died for you 
Jesus, I hang upon thy 
Jesus, in thy great name 
Jesus, in thy name we 

Jesus is glorified 

Jesus is worthy to recei 
Jesus, let all thy servan 
Jesus, let my nature feel 
Jesus, let our faithful mi 
Jesus, my all in all thou 
Jesus, my God ! I know 
Jesus, my heart's desire 
Jesus, my Shepherd, Sa 
Jesus, my strength, my 
Jesus, now teach our he 
Jesus, on me bestow. . . 
Jesus, our great High 

Priest, Has shed his 
Jesus, our great High 

Priest, Hath full aton 
Jesus, our Lord, arise,. 
Jesus, our tender'd souls 
Jesus protects ; my fear 
Jesus, see my panting 
Jesus, seek thy wander 
Jesus the ancient faith 
Jesus, the crowning gra 
Jesus ! — the Name that 
Jesus, the Name to sin 
Jesus the pris'ner's fett 
Jesus, the Saviour, reig 
Jesus, the weary wand' 
Jesus their toil delighte 
Jesus, thine aid afford. 
Jesus, thine own at last 
Jesus, thou for me hast 
Jesus, thou source of all 
Jesus, thy blood, thy bl 
Jesus, thy smiles impart 
Jesus, thy speaking bio 
Jesus, to whom I fly., , 
Jesus ! transporting sou 
Jesus, vouchsafe a pityi 
Jesus, vouchsafe my he 
Jesus, with us thou alw 
Jesus, we look to thee . 
Jesus, we thy promise 
Join we then, with one 
Join'd in one spirit to ou 
Join'd with those beyon 
Joy of the desolate, lig 
J ^yfnl all ye nations ris 



64 



Joyful, with allth»^otie 
Judge not the Lord by 
Justly naight Ihy venge 

Keep the souls whom no 
Kind Intercessor, to thy 
Kindled his relentings 
Knowing as I am known 

Lame as I am, I take th 
Lay to thy mighty hand 
Lay thy supporting han 
Leaning on Jesus' breas 
Learning's redimdant pa 
Leave me not, my stren 
Leave no unguarded pla 
Leave to his sov'reign 
Led by the light thy gr 
Led on by thine unerring 
Lest that my fearful cas 
Let air, and earth, and 
Let all the angel throng 
Let all the nations join. 
Let all the saints terres 
Let all who for the pro 
Let all who owe to thee 
Let auger, sloth, desire, 
Let cares like a wild de 
Let each his sin eschew 
Let earth and heaven be 
Let earth no more my 

Let echo prolong 

Let every act of worshi 
Let every kindred, ever 
Let every moment, as it 
Let Faith exalt her joyf 
Let goodness and mercy 
Let humble, penitential 
Let joy and worship sp 
Let me alone, that all 
Let me never from thee 
Let me no more, in deep 
Let me thy witness live 
Let me with horror fly. 
Let not conscience mak 
Let others stretch their 
Let peace within her w 
Let sickness blast, let 
Let sin no more my soul 
Let that mercy veil tra 
Let the dumb world its 
Let the elders praise th 
Let the fruits of grace 
Let the living here be 
Let the living stones cr 
Let the ransom 'd thus 
Let there be light, agai 
Let these, O God, my 
Let this blest hope mi 
Let this my every hour 
Let thrones, and powers 
Let thronging multitude 
Let thy blood, by faith 
Let thy eternal truths, 
Let thy holy Child, wh 
Let us aU together rise 
Let us for each other ca 
Let us in life, in death 
Let us still to thee look 
Let us then rejoice in ho 
Let us then sweet couu 
Let us then with joy re 
Life and peace to me im 
Life his hearing blood 
Life's labour done, as si 
liife's poor distinctions 



646 

445 
243 

621 
611 

244 



511 
399 
400 
605 
397 
433 
465 
40 
617 
514 
624 
537 
594 
672 
427 



375 
167 
495 

75 

12 
111 

12 
662 
504 
168 

47 
337 
118 
490 
294 
231 
205 
540 



610 
87 
15 
429 
579 
308 
15 
120 
406 
365 
53? 
602 
13^ 
170 
42 
677 
426 
420 
486 
351 
309 
413 
420 
118 
263 
651 
10 



INDEX OF VERSES. 



743 



ILifl to tee area of heav 48 
Lift up, for all mankind 132 
Lift up thy countenance 279 
Lift up tny eireamiug 215 
Light, in thy light, O 279 
Light of the world, aga 585 
Light of the world '. thy 485 
Like him, may we be fo 606 
Like mighty rushing wi 122 
Like mighty winds, or 126 
Like the rough sea, tha 200 
Listen to the wondrous 74 
Live, till the Lord in gl 427 
Lives again our glorious 97 
Lo, every kindred, ever 591 
Lo ! from their seats the 668 
Lo ! glad I come ; and 270 
Lo ! God is here ! him 29 
J A) ! his triumphal char 99 
Lo ! Buch the child who 604 
Lo ! the incarnate God 206 
Lo ! 'tis an infent chorus 607 
Lo ! 'tis He ! our hearts 664 
Lo ! to the hiln I lift mi 228 
Lo ! with deep tontritio 610 
Loathsome, and »li9, an 191 
Long as I live ben4<ith. 392 
Long as our fiery ti^als 333 
Long have they in thy 134 
Long my imprison'd spi 269 
Look, as when thine eye 229 
Look, as when thy lang 230 
Look how we grovel he 120 , 
Loose all your bars of 99 I 
Lord, arm me with thy 321 i 
Lord, at thy feet I fall. 256 ' 
Lord ! everlasting than 404 ] 
Lord, for thy glory shin 48 i 
L-jrd, form my temper 460 
Lord, from thy word re 43 ! 
Lord, give us such a fa 342 
l^jTd, 1 am blind,— be th 220 J 
Lord, I am sick, — my si 220 
I^ord, I believe thy pow 299 ', 
Lord, I believe thy pre 110 I 
Lord, I believe were si 110 i 
Lord, I come to thee for 336 , 
Lord, I mv vows to the 359 i 
Lord, I will not let thee 280 '•■ 
Lord, if I now thy draw 141 i 
Lord, if thou didst the 374 
Lord, if thou didst thys 135 
Lord, if thou wilt, I do 191 { 
Lord, in this sacred hou 153 
Lord, in thy love we w 148 
lord, it is my chief co 274 
Tjord Jesus, be our cons 573 
Lord, let my soul forev 364 
Lord, let us put on thee 570 
Lord, may our union fo 411 
Lord, may that holier 153 
Lord ! obe'diently we '11 498 
L-vrd of the nations, thu 617 
Lord, on thee our souls 41 
Lord ! on thy cross I fix 87 
Lord, shall the breathi 464 
Lord, shall we live so 507 
Lord, teach our hearts 35 
Lord, 'tis not ours to m 582 
Lord, through another 634 
Lord, we believe the pr 102 
Lord, we commend the 134 
Lord '. what is man that 49 
Lord, what shall earth 23 
Lost are they now, and 130 



Loud hallelujahs sing.. 471 
Loud hallelujahs to thy 85 
Love only can the conq 819 
Love's mysterious work 170 
Love's redeeming work 97 
Lover of souls ! thou kn 37 
Lover of souls, — to resc 223 
Lowly, loving, meek, an 322 

Make good their anosto 133 
Make us all in thee co 1^ 
Make us into one spirit 4lif 
Make us of on« heart an 420 
Mark but that radiance 646 
Mark what wonders Go 623 
May all mankind recei 80 
May he teach us to fulfi 679 
I May I remember that to 453 
May our light be alway 475 
' May that observing ey 385 
May they in Jesus, wh 129 
May thy rich grace im 350 
: May thy Spirit here giv 577 
May thy will, not mine 311 
May we receive the wo 30 
May we this life impro 362 
May we with calm and 370 
Me and my house recei 375 
Me, behold ; thy mercy 273 
Me for thine own thou 529 
Me, in my blood, thy lo 271 
Me, me, who still in da 223 
, Me with that restless th 301 
I Meanest of all thy serv 39 
j Mercy and grace are th 65 
I Mercy, and grace, and 109 
Mercy I ask to seal my 251 . 
Mercifiil God, how shal 628 
Merciful God, thyself p 64 
Mere worldly good I do 250 
Messiah's name shall jo 608 
Me thinks I see a thous 643 ' 
]Might I enjoy the mea 23 , 
Might I in thy sight ap 232 
Might view the Lamb 83 ' 
Mightiest kings his po 596 ; 
Millions before thy pres 49 i 
Millions of happy spirit 37 
Millions of sinners, vile 177 ; 
MUlions of souls, in glo 162 ' 
Minutes and mercies m 366 I 
More and more let love 414 \ 
More dear than life itse 359 
More favour'd than the 304 
More of thy life, and mo 320 
Move, and actuate, and 420 i 
My crimes are great, bu 241 
My days are shorter th 637 
My days, xmclouded as 365 
My dying Saviour, and 315 
My earth thou wat'rest 296 
My every weak, though 492 
My faith as gold refine. 463 
My Father, God, permi 281 
My Father, God! that 283 
My feet shall travel all 538 
My flesh, which cries, — 315 
My God, in Jesus pacifi 237 
My God is reconciled.. 285 
My God ! O could I ma 240 
My gracious Master an 7 
My heart, which now to 191 
My hope, my trust, my 463 
My humbled soul, whe 242 
My life I would anew.. 361 I 



My life is tut a spau. .. iSl 
My life, my blood, I au 390 
My life, my portion th 258 
My lifted eye, without a 373 
I My lips shall dwell upo 59 
; My lips with shame my 241 
My Lord, if indeed I am 539 
I My message as from G 210 
I My mind, by thy all-qu 238 
' My oft-repeated prayer 462 
My one desire be this . . 258 
My passions hold a pie 641 
My peace, my life, my 330 
IVIy prayer hath power 388 
My Saviour, by his wor 523 
My Saviour, how shall 89 
My Sa\-ionr, let thybea 475 
My sin's incurable dise 191 
My solemn engagement 274 
My soul and all its pow 392 
My soul breaks out in 316 
My soul, in pleasing wo 363 
My soul lies humbled in 249 
My soul obeys the graci 195 
My soul shall then, like 305 
My soul to thee alone . . 367 
My soul, with cheerful 106 
My soul with thy whol 345 
My soul would leave th 537 
My spirit, in his hand se 363 
My spirit. Lord, alarm. 349 
My steadfast soul, from 323 
My sufF'ring time shall 348 
My thoughts lie open to 56 
My trespass was grow 186 
My restless soul cries ou 324 
My will be swallow'd up 495 
My willing soul would 149 
My wisdom and my gu 293 
Myriads of bright, cher 504 
Myself I cannot save.. 367 
Much of my time has ru 366 
Must I be carried to the 438 

Nature, in wild amaze . 666 
Nay, but I yield, I yield 258 
Neither sin, nor earth, 339 
Ne'er let thy glory heu 577 
Ne'er think the vict'ry 437 
Ne'er was a heart more 240 
Ne'er will the Lord his 468 
Never let the world br 351 
Never love nor sorrow 91 
Never shall I want it le 460 
Never will I remove. . . 294 
New time, new favours 366 
Night unto night his na 360 
Nipp'd by the wind's 659 
No accents flow, no wo 393 
No anger, henceforwar 653 
No anxious doubt, n > gi 640 
No chilling winds, or pt 555 
No cloud those regions 553 
No condemnation now I 269 
No good word, or work, 245 
No loHger then my hea 320 
No man can truly say. . 287 
No matter which my th 644 
No more fatigue, no mo 154 
No more I stagger at th 290 
No more let creature bl 59b 
No other right have I. . 257 
No ! rather let me freely 453 
No room for mirth or tr 644 
No rude alarms of rafi 154 



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INDEX OF VERSES 



No slightest touch of pa 572 
No strength of our own, 444 

No symbol visible 144 

No terror has death, or 645 
No : though the ancient 286 
None else will heaven 107 
None who are truly bor 412 
Noi', as he in the tempi 27 
Nor bleeding bird, nor 187 
Nor earth, nor all the 541 
Nor let the good man's 446 
Nor pain, nor grief, nor 656 
Nor shall my tongue al 548 
Nor these alone their v 608 
Nor will I cease thy pr 548 
Not a doubt doth arise, 275 
Not all our groans and 177 
Not all the harps abov 541 
Not angel tongues can 538 
Not in the name of prid 28 
Not in the tombs we pi 136 
Not now on Zion's heig 44 
Not one. but all our da 152 
Not to the last ! Thy w 446 
Not what we wish, *but 378 
Nothing hath the just 674 
Nothing I ask or want 270 
Nothing is worth a tho 644 
Nothing less will I req 325 
Nothing on earth do I 305 
Nothing ye in exchange 212 
Now as yesterday the 474 
Now bless, thou God of 158 
Now, Father, Son, and 306 
Now, from thy throne of 235 
Now God invites; how 198 
Now glory to God in 183 
Now I repent ; now sin 509 
Now, if thy gracious wi 251 
Now incline me to repe 244 
Now is his truth revea 98 
Now is the accepted ti 199 
Now, Jesus, now thy lo 136 
Now lend thy gracious 354 
Now let me gain perfe 303 
Now let me in the cleft 459 
Now let our darkness c 405 
Now let the world's de 148 
Now let thy Spirit brin 299 
Now, Lord, I have to th 394 
Now, Lord, to whom fo 191 
Now, only now, against 668 
Now pardon, life, and jo 84 
Now purify ray faith li 328 
Now rest, my long-divi 272 
Now, Saviour, let thy 36 
Now, Saviour, now thy 161 
Now the full glories of 611 
Now, then, my God, th 321 
Now, then, the ceaseles 137 
Now to our eyes display 118 
Now to the God of vict 645 
Now to thee, thou God 678 
Now to thy house will 358 
Now will we bless the 531 
Now, ye needy, come an 205 
Number'd among thy p 640 

O arm me with the mi 437 
O be a nobler portion m 638 
O, be thou present now 29 
O believe the record tr 207 
O bid this trifling world 357 
O, by the anguish of th 381 
clmng^e these hearts 1S8 



O, clothe the/r words wi 134 
O 1 come, and reign o'er 592 
O come, and with us ta 210 
O, come to thy servants 82 
death ! where is thy 452 
O do not suffer him to 417 
O do thou always warm 512 
O enter this desolate he 219 
O Father of mercies, on 382 
O for a faith like his, th 461 
O for a lowly, contrite 301 
O for a tnmipet voice : 185 
O for that power which 199 
O for the death of those 650 
O for the living flame.. 15 
O for this love let rocks 85 
O, for thy truth and mer 589 
O give me faith, and fa 481 
O give US eyes of faith 223 
O God, how faithful are 156 
O God, let all my hours 360 
O God, mine inmost son 638 
O God, our help in ages 636 
O God our King, whose 23 
O God, thou art my ho 519 
O God ! thy record I be 265 
O grant that nothing in 494 
O guard our shores from 617 
O happy bond, that sea 272 
Ohappy, happy day... 675 
O happy, happy soul ... 653 
O happy scenes above th 464 
O happy souls that pray 21 
O hear God's voice to-d 199 
O hearken to my voice 259 
O hide this self from m 491 
O holy, holy, holy Lord 50 
O how can words with 501 
O how shall I the good 280 
O how wav'ring is my 508 
O Jesus ! appear, no io 40 
Jesus, could I this be 244 
O Jesus, full of grace ! 247 
O Jesus, if this be thy 654 
O Jesus, now my heart 328 
O Jesus, of thee I inqui 521 
O Jesus, once rock'd on 628 
O Jesus, ride on, — thy 183 
O Jesus, there is none 108 
O let me have thy pres 390 
O let me never blush to 390 
O let my soul on thee 364 
O let our heart and min 138 
O let oar love and faith 136 
O let that glorious anth 602 
O let the same almight 362 
O let them all thy min 140 
O let them spread thy 129 
O let these earthly Sab 148 
O let thine unction on h 1 59 
O let thy chosen few. .. S54 
O let thv death's myste 649 
O, let tny grace inspire 55 
O let thy light my wots 461 
O let thy love my heart 91 
O let thy rising beams. 862 
O let thy sacred presen 305 
O let thy Spirit shed ab 249 
O let us all join hand in 418 
O let us by thy cross ab 297 
O let us find the ancien 419 
O let us our own works 515 
O let us still proceed.. . 137 
O let us stir each other 427 
O let us take a softer m 414 



let us thus go on. . . ., 67* 
O let us tread the narro 407 
O Light divine I direct 123 
light of Zion, now ari 594 
O long-expected day, be 154 
O Lord God Almighty 1 646 
O Lord, how excellent 49 
O Lord, if mercy is with 512 
O Lord, our efforts own 695 
O Lord, what heavenly 84 
O love, thou bottomless 264 
O Love, thy sov'reign ai 491 
O make me all like thee 294 
O may all enjoy the ble 679 
O may I bear some hu 61 
O may I calmly wait. . 34l» 
O may I hear thy warn 481 
O may I learn tlie art. . 438 
O may I love like thee, 438 
O may I never turn asi 328 
O may I set my face. ... 349 
O may I still from sin d 502 
O may I triumph so. . . . 440 
O may I worthy prove 16 
O may my broken, con 219 
O may my soul, with joy 406 
O may no gloomy crime 362 
O may one beam of thy 508 

may our more harmon 613 

1 may our sympathizi 618 
O may the gracious wo 419 
O may the great Redee 597 
O may the prospect fire 553 

O may the return 74 

O may the uncorrupted 94 
O may these heavenly 404 
O may thine own celes 386 
O may this weak, this 460 
O may thy quick'ning 28 
O may thy Spirit guide 358 
O may thy Spirit seal. . 416 
O may we all be foimd 667 
O may we all improve. 439 
O may we all, like him 652 
O may we all triumpha 628 
O may we ever walk in 677 
O may we, Lord, the gr 616 
O may we through thy 516 
O, may we tread the sa 567 
O might I now embrace 290 
O my offended Lord.... 514 
O never suffer me to sle 436 
O, on that day, that wr 668 
O plant in me thy mind 484 
O receive us to thy favo 106 
O remember me for goo 232 
O send thy light and tr 410 
O set upon thyself my 459 
O, shall not warmer ace 164 
O spare me yet, I pray 637 
O spread thy cov'ring 42 
O that all men would ra 626 
O that each, in the day 631 
O that I could all invite 477 
O that I could forever 324 
C that I could the bless 251 
O that I could, with fa 325 
O that I might at once 296 
O that I might now dec 325 
O that I never, never 377 
O that I now, from sin 298 
O that I now the rest 291 
O that I now the voice 293 
O that in me the sacred 323 
O that it now trom hea 82S 



INDEX OF VEUSES. 



745 



that mm. firculd prai 623 
O that my heart might 466 
O that my tender Boiil 352 
O that our faith mayne 109 
O that our light may sh 155 
'•that our thoughts an 152 
O that the Comforter w '288 
O that the perfect grac 326 
O that the workl might k 287 
Othat the world might t 136 
O ! that the world the ar 4S0 
O that to thee my cons 352 
O that wa all might no 197 
O that we now the po 425 
O that, with all thy sal 312 
O that with yonder sac 111 
O that, without a ling'r 640 
O the rapturous height. 273 
O the transporting, rapt 555 
O then, aloud, in joytul 18 
O, think what vast cone 199 
Othou almighty Lord . 112 
O thou, by whom we co 332 
O thou dear suffering So 90 
Othou eternal Ruler.. 586 
O thou, to whom, in an 44 
Othou who givest life 605 
Othou! who o'er the C 577 
O thou who seest and kn 189 
O ! to grace how great a 536 
tune our tongues, and 161 
O turn us, turn us, bless 610 
O unexampled love. ... 185 
O warm my heart with 150 
O wash my so\il from ev 241 
O watch, and fight, and 437 
"* what a blessed hope 552 
O what a joyful meeting 422 
O what a pure delight. 158 
O what are all my suflf' 574 
O what hath Jesus bou 574 
O what shall we do our 40 
O when, thou city of my 562 
O when wilt thou my Sa 292 
O who could bear life's 447 
O wondrous knowledge ! 56 
O, wondrous love ! to ble 246 
O would he more of hea 552 
O would my Lord his se 642 
O wouldst thou again be 82 
O wouldst thou, Lord, th 436 
O wretched state of dee 671 
O ye banish'd seed, be 497 
O ye of fearful hearts, be 294 
Obedient faith, that wa 265 
Obedient to thy will alo 394 j 
O'er all those wide-exte 555 
O'er the pagan's night 590 1 
O'erwhelm'd with juste 450; 
O'erwhelm'd with thy 302 i 
Of all the pious dead... 63S! 
Of all thou hast in earth 513 
Of all thy heart's desire 652 
Of thine unbounded pow 60 
Oft as I lay me down to 409 
Oft did I with the asse 509 
Oft I in my heart have 261 
Omnipotent Redeemer. 527 
On cherubmi and serap 51 
On earth we weary pilg 380 
On his shoulder he" shall 78 
On me, on all, some gift 39 
On me the fitith divine 311 
On my sod heart the bu 196 
Oi thee alone my hope 172 



On thee, O God, my soul 290 
On thee we humbly wa 129 
On this auspicious mom 151 
On this benighted heart 519 
On this glad day a brig 96 
On thy redeeming name 343 
On us the Father's love 110 
On wiugs of love the 618 
Once they were mourn 556 
One army of the living 573 
One day in such a place 149 
One family we dwell in 573 
One only care my soul 256 
One only gift can justify 262 
One only way the errin 45r 
One undivided Trinity 6L 
Only believe, in living 446 
Only Thee content to kn 303 
Open mine eyes the La 223 
Open my faith's interior 303 
Open now the crj-stal fo 493 
Open the intercourse be 514 
Open their eyes thy cro 206 
Open wide, O God, thy 578 
Or if this night sliould 369 
Or worn by slowly-roUi 660 
Other knowledge I disd 476 
Other refuge have I no 235 
Our brother the haven 655 
Our chart, thy written 144 
Our contrite spirits pity 43 
Our daily bread supply 334 
Our dearest joys, and 474 
Our eyes have seen the 202 
Our eyes no longer dro 530 
Our fainting souls susta 105 
Our fallen, ruin'd souls 67 
Our fathers, where are 638 
Our glad hosannas, Prin 77 
Our glorious Leader cla 556 
Our hearts exult in son 586 
Our heavenly Father, 116 
Our joy, to sing of thee 543 
Our labours done, secur 658 
Our life, and health, an 374 
Our life is a dream ; our 631 
Our life is hid with Chr 677 
Our life, while thou pre 622 
Our lives those holy an 505 
Our mis'ry doth for pity 64 
Our mourning is all at 561 
Our mouth as in the dus 609 
Our nature shall no mor 327 
Our nature's tum'd, our 277 
Our nura'rous griefs are 403 
Our offspring, still thy 157 
Our only help in dange 450 
Our prayers assist ; ace 594 
Our residue of days or 633 
Our iTsing world obey'd 29 
Our sons henceforth be 376 
Our souls and bodies we 

resign ; With joy we 317 
Our souls and bodies 344 
Our souls are in his mig 422 
Our souls, obedient to 372 
Our souls rejoicingly pu 404 
Our spirits drink a fresh 1 64 
Our spirits too shall qui 573 
Our vows, our prayers, 41 
Our wasting lives grow 635 
Our watchtul guardian 620 
Our way to God we tra 110 
Our wishes, our desires 484 
Out of great distress th 567 



Out of the deep reeard 354 

palp death, with all his 530 
pardon, and grace, and 443 
pardon and peace abou 85 
pardon and peace to dy 162 
pardon, O God, my for 360 
pardon 'd for all that I 302 
part of thy Name divin 61 
partakers of the Saviou 677 
paschal Lamb, by God 113 
pass a few fleeting mo 382 
patient the appointed r 497 
peace on earth, good-w 74 
people and realms of ev 598 
people of many a tribe 370 
perfect our souls in eve 678 
perhaps he will admit 217 
permit them to approac 157 
pity and heal my sin-si 247 
pity the day of feeble 355 
place on the Lord relia 440 
pleasure, and wealth, 478 
plenteous grace with th 235 
poor and vile in my own 234 
poor I may be — despise 451 
poor, sinful, thirsty, fai 176 
pour out the promised 589 
power o'er the world, 330 
praise him. ye who kno li 
praise with my heart, 473 
pray for Jerusalem. ... 154 
prayer is the bm-den of 331 
prayer is the Christian's 332 
prayer is the contrite 332 
prayer is the simplest 331 
prayer makes the dark 33' 
prepare, and then posse 22 
prepared, by grace divi 55t 
present alike in every 67 
present we know thou 28 
present we still in spirit 676 
Preserve it from the pa 680 
Prmces, this clay must 642 
Pris'ner, long detained 662 
Pris'ner of hope, I still 237 
Pris'ners of hope, we w 361 
Proclaim hosannas, loud 608 
Pronounce the glad wor 36 
Prostrate I'll lie before 216 
Protect me from the fur 459 
Pure love to God thy 330 

Quick as their thoughts 284 

Rage, while our faith th 625 
Raised by the breath of 497 
Raised on devotion's lof 53 
Ready for all thy perfe 344 
Ready for you the ange 211 
Ready the 'Father is to 211 
Ready the Spirit of his 211 
Ready thou art the bio 38 
Reb^l. ye waves, and o' 54 
Rebuild thy wa]ls,.thy 142 
Rebiike our rage ; our 418 
Receive the purchase oi 249 
Redeem'd from earth an 653 
Redeemer, full of love . 216 
Redeemer ! grant thy b 607 
Redemption in his blood 326 
Refining fire, go throug 321 
Reflect, thou hast a soul 201 
Refresh us with h eeaee 31 
Regard me with a grac 181 
Regard our prayers for 350 



746 



INDEX OF VERSES. 



Regard thine own eteni 415 
Reign in me, Lord ; thy 3'20 
Reioice in glorious hope 534 
■Rejoice, ye that love hi 60'2 
Rejoicing now in earnest 295 
Relief alone is found ... Ill 
Remember, Lord, my si 302 
Remember, Lord, the an 511 
Remember thee and all 163 
Remember thee ! thy de 164 
Remove this hardness 291 
Rene w our souls with he 84 
Renew thme image, Lo 486 
Renouncing every worl 311 
Rest for my soul I long 307 
Resting in this glorious 674 
Restored by reconciling 237 
Restrniuing prayer, we 336 
Rests secure the righte 674 
Return, O holy Dove, re 516 
Return, O Lord of hosts 511 
Return, O wanderer, re 213 
Riches, as seemeth good 62 
Riches unsearchable . . . 505 
Ride forth, victorious C 597 
Rise, Lord, and help me 517 
Rising to sing my Savio 409 
Rivers of love and mere 181 
Rivers to the ocean run 557 
Roar on, ye waves ; our 625 
Round each habitation 145 



Safe from the world's al 606 
Safe is the expanded w.i 402 
Safe through this world 107 
Sages, leave your conte 77 
Saints and angels join'd 206 
Saints before the altar 77 
Saints, begin the endles 558 
Saints below, with hear 12 
Saints in glory, perfect 402 
Salvation in that name 228 
Salvation! let the echo 175 
Salvation! O thou blee 175 
Salvation to God, who 17 
Satan, with all his arts 315 
Save me from death ; fr 105 
Save me from pride, — 351 
>ave, till all these temp 621 
Save us by grace, throu 263 
Save us from the great 351 
Save us, in the prospero 351 
Saved by the merit of 652 
Saved from the fear of 329 
Saviour, accept the pra 659 
Saviour, and Prince of 192 
Saviour! at thy feet I 311 
Saviour from sin, we th 325 
Saviour, I thank thee fo 316 
Saviour, look down with 418 
Saviour of men, incline 375 
Saviour, Prince, enthro 229 
Saviour ! thy meek and 401 
Saviour,"to me, in pity 232 
Saviour, to thee my sou 329 
Saviour, where'er tby st 489 
Saw ye not the cloud ar 600 
Say, shall we yield him 76 
Say to the heathen, from 596 
Scatter the last remains 320 
Search thou our hearts, 57 
Seasons, and months, an 612 
Seasona and moons, still 373 
Seated at God's right ha 103 



! Secure, in danger's dark 
See all your sins on Jes 
See, at thy throne of gr 
See, Christ, with open 
See from his head, his 
See from his wounded 
See from the Rock a fo 
See, he lifts his hands 
See him set forth before 
See, in the Saviour's dy 
See, Lord, the travail of 
See my utter helplessne 
See on the mountam top 
See the haven full in vi 
See the stars from heav 
See, the si reams of livi 
See, where before the 
See where o'er desert 
See where the God inc 
See where the servants 
Seek ye my face ;— with 
Send forth thy word, an 
Send some message fro 
Send, then, thy servant 
Send us the Spirit of th 
Sent by my Lord, on you 
Serene I laid me down 
Set up thy throne where 
Shake off the bands of 
Shake off the dust that 
Shall aught beguile me 
Shall guilty fears preva 
Shall I, amidst a ghastl 
Shall I be mute, great 
Shall I not then engage 
Shall I, to soothe the 
Shall we, whose souls 
Shed on those, who in 
Shepherds, in the field 
Shine to his praise, ye 
Short of thy love I wou 
Should dread of want 
Should earth against my 
Should sudden vengean 
Should swift death this 
Shout, all the people of 
Shout in the midst of us 
Shout to the Lord, ye 
Show me the blood that 
Show me what I have 
Show them the blood 
Shudder not to pas? the 
Shut up in unbelief, I 
Since by thy light mys 
Since I must fight if I 
Since thou a pitying ear 
Since thou hast bid me 
Since thou would'st hav 
Slug of his dymg love ; 
Sing to the Lord ! exalt 
Sing we then in Jesus' 
Sink down, ye separati 
Sinnens, expect those he 
Sinners, from earth's re 
Sinners, his life for you 
Sinners of old thou dids 
Sinners, turn : why will 
Sinners, whose love can 
Sinners, wrung with tru 
Sin's deceitfulness hath 
Smell the sweet odour 
Smile on my minutes as 
Soar we now where Ch 
So be it ; let this system 
So blooms the human fa 



So fades a summer clou 
So I may thy Spirit kno 
So Jesus look'd on dyin 
So Jesus slept ; — God's 
So let thy grace surrou 
So may our youth adore 
So may the unbelieving 
So may the words my 
So shall 1 bless thy pie 
So shall my walk he el 
So shall our sun of hope 
So shall the bright sue- 
So shall he visits of thy 
Sc shall the world belie 
So shall thy choicest gi 
So shall we pray, and 
So when in silence natu 
So when my latest brea 
So, when on Zion thou 
So, whene'er the signal 
So wretched and obscur 
Sole, self-existing God 
Songs of praise awoke 
Sons of God, your Savi 
Soon as from earth I go 
Soon as the evening sha 
Soon as the mom the li 
Soon as the morn with 
Soon as we draw our in 
Soon, borne on time's mo 
Soon from us the light 
Soon shall I learn the 
Soon shall ocean's hoary 
Soon shall our doubts an 
Soon shall we hear him 
Soon to come to earth 
Soon will our earthly ra 
Soon will the toilsome 
Sorrow and fear are gon 
Soul of my soul, remain 
Source of sweetest cons 
Source of truth, whose 
Sov'reign Father, heav 
Speak! and the world 
Speak but the reconcili 
Speak, gracious Lord, — 
Speak, Lord, and bid ce 
Speak the second time, 
Speak thy pard'ning gr 
Speak to my warring pa 
Speak, with that voice 
Spirit of faith, my heart 
Spirit of grace ! all mee 
Spirit of grace ! O deign 
Spirit of life, and Ught, 
Spirit of light, explore. 
Spirit of purity and gra 
Spirit of truth and love 
Spirit of truth, be thou 
Spotless, sincere, witho 
Spread for thee, the fes 
Spread through the ear 
Spruikle me, Saviour, w 
Sprinkled now ^\ith bio 
Stand then in his great 
Standing now as newly 
Still art thou overwhel 
Still heavy i« thy heart 
Still hide mt in thy sec 
Still hold my soul in life 
Still hold my soul in sec 
StUl hold the stars in th 
Still let him with my 
Still let it on the assem 
Still let me live thy bio 



6N9 

30« 
61S 
656 

56 
604 
41i 
406 
307 
516 

42 
127 

we 

415 
40 
281 
472 



505 
66 
12 
600 
641 
45 
517 
384 
187 
198 
364 
550 
664 
467 
8 
378 
G08 
466 
531 
306 
124 
603 
31 
591 
418 
220 
240 
325 
118 
452 
197 
153 
500 
30 
121 
122 
124 
592 
122 
102 
212 
589 
351 
211 
433 
245 
215 
465 
377 
394 
481 
133 
345 
21 
491 



INDEX OF VERSES. 



747 



3till let them couusel ta 529 
Still let thy tears, thy 89 
Still let thy wisdom be 269 
Still let us o\vTi our c<;m 419 
Still, Lord, thy saving 436 
Still may I trust in thee 463 
Still may I walk as in 496 
Still may thy children 42 
Still mav we to our cen 428 
Still, O Lord, our faith 430 
Still our Advocate in he 106 
Still restless nature dies 71 
Still sure t.j me thy pro 237 
Still t) the lowly soul. . 299 
Still we believe, almig 408 
Still we wait for thine 222 
Strangers and pilgrims 496 
Stripp'd of each earthl 531 
Strive we, m affection 428 
Strong Creator, Saviour 378 
Stronger his love than 324 
Stronger than death or 276 
Struggle through thy la 655 
Subdue in us the carnal 418 
Subdue the power of ev 117 
Sublime on liis eternal 673 
Submissive to thy just d 639 
Subsists as in us all one 676 
Such blessings, from th 42 
Such is the Christian's 646 
SuflF'ring Son of man, be 393 
Sun and moon are both 664 
Superior to my foes I st 390 
Supply what every me 428 
Supreme and all-snflBcie 69 
Sure as thy ti-uth shall 147 
Surely I shall, the sinne 341 
Surely in us the hope . . 298 
Surely thou canst not let 245 
Surely thou didst imite 415 
Sweet fields beyond the 554 
Sweet is the day of sac 149 
Sweet to look back, and 39; 
Sweet to look inward, 39i 
Sweet to reflect how gr 39; 
Sweet to rejoice in live 395 
Sweet were his words, 606 
Sweetly may we all agr 421 
Swift Tascend the heav 542 
Swift through the vast 7; 
Swift to my rescue com 335 
Sworn to destroy, let ea "~" 

Take, eat, this is my bo 160 
Take my poor heart, an 318 
Take ray soul and bod 316 
Take the dear purchase 356 
Take us into thy peopl 297 
Teach all the nations 128 
Teach me to live that I 364 
Teach my weak heart 106 
Teach them to sow the 134 
Teach us, in eA'ery state 
Teach us, in watchfulne 592 
Teach us to live, by fait 337 
Teach us, with glad, un 620 
Tell me, or thou shalt 141 
Tend'rest branch, alas ! 457 
Ten thousand snares, 486 
Ten thousand thousand 216 
Ten thousand to their 573 
Thankful I take the cup 452 
Thanks for mercies pas 631 
Thanks we give, and ad 680 
riuit all-comprising pe 279 



That bears unmoved th 194 
That blessed law of thi 305 
That glorious, heavenly 156 
That great mysterious 551 
That heavenly Teacher 115 
That I thy mercy may 297 
That light shall shme 594 
That mighty faith on m 310 
That path with humble 305 
That precious wealth sh 618 
That promise made to 115 
That so thy wondrous 594 
That Spirit, which from 511 
That sweet comfort was 272 
That token of thine ut 194 
That veil of darkness re 587 
That will not murmur 342 
That wisdom, Lord, on 487 
The Almighty Former 84 
The apostles'* glorious, 50 
The apostles of my Lo 441 
The atonement of thy 315 
The bu-ds, without barn 444 
The blessing of another 361 
The blessing of thy love 221 
The bliss thou hast for 314 
The blood of goats and 104 
The brightest thuigs be 474 
The brightness of hLsgl 71 
The busy tribes of flesh 636 
The calm retreat, the si 384 
The captive exiles mak 354 
The chaff of sin, the ac 309 
The cheerful tribute wi 550 
The Christ, by raptured 79 
The Church of the first 138 
The Church triumphant 554 
The clouds which veil 26 
The consolations of thy 292 
The counsel of thy lovo 326 
The cov'nant we this 632 
The creature of thy han 55 
The cross our Master bo 379 
The cup of blessing, ble 161 
The darkness which th 190 
The day glides sweetly 284 
The day of small and f e 450 
The day of thy great 307 
The dead in Christ sha 673 
The deadly slumber th 508 
The dearest gift of hea 607 
The dearest idol I have 516 
The debt that sinners 172 
The depth of aU-redee 186 
The dictates of thy sov 63 
The dving thief rejoice 174 
The earth and all the 672 
The earth, the ocean, a 411 
The evening cloud, the 636 
The everlasting doors... 629 
The faithful of each cli 139 
The Father gives the So 169 
The Father hath receiv 
The Father hears him 285 
The Father, Son, and 211 
The few that truly call 140 
The fire our graces'shall 468 
The flowery spring, at 612 
The fondness of a crea 475 
The foolish builders, scr 575 
The friends who in our 447 
; The gift unspeakable im 227 
1 The gift unspeakable... 80 
I The gift which he on 424 
I The gladness of that ha 12 



The iloriou 

The God'of Abrah'm pr 564 



lloriou) crown ot 286 
The glory of the Lord 131 



The God of harvest pra 614 
The God that rules on 634 
The godly fear, the pie 213 
The goodly land I see 565 
The gospel trumpet he 181 
The grace to sinners sh 537 
The giacious fruits of ri 489 
The graves of all his sa 658 
The greedy sea shall yi 671 
The guiltless shame, th 213 
The happy gates of gos 182 
The hardness of our hea 38 
The b'^.avenly babe you 73 
The highest place that 101 
The holy Church throu 50 
The holy, meek, unspot 110 
The holy to the holiest 554 
The huge celestial bodi 672 
The indubitable witness 2&t* 
The joy of all who dwe 101 
The King himself come 149 
The kingdom. Lord, is 61 
The Lamb for sinners si 167 
The lark mounts up the 47 
The lids he so seldom 653 
The light of smiles sha 445 
The liA-ing bread sent do 161 
The living look with dr 666 
The Lord beheld me sor 525 
The Lord forgive thy si 525 
The Lord his people lov 21 
The Lord is risen indee 97 
The Lord makes bare hi 128 
The Lord my righteous 262 
The Lord of hosts, the 79 
The Lord pours eyesigh 549 
The Lord shall clear his 131 
The Lord, the mighty 64 
The Lord, who built the 465 
The Lord your God sha 130 
The love of Christ doth 389 
The love of Christ their 135 
The man whose hands 54 
The meek and lowly he 27^ 
The men of grace have 535 
The mighty God is He 79 
The more I strove agai 270 
The mountains, in their 582 
The mountains, in thy 189 
The new Jerusalem on 576 
The o'erwhelming pow 213 
The opening heavens ar 537 
The pam of life shall th 14fi 
The painful thirst, the 490 
The pains, the groans, 642 
The passions to recall 188 
The path of Christ our 109 
The path to glory lies 443 
The peace and the pow 126 
The peace which man 237 
The people that in dark 186 
The pit its mouth hath 583 
The plague, and dearth 663 
The power that gave it 404 
The powers of nature 651 
The present we should 199 
The promise stands fore 295 
The promised land, fro 296 
The reconciling word 326 
The righteousness that 35<< 
The rising sun, serenely 45 
The rocks can rend ; the 224 



748 



INDEX OF VERSfiS. 



The rod of wickedness 
The rougher the way 
The rush of miroerous 
The sacred, true, offset 
The saints in his presen 
The saints, when he res 
The scourge, the thorn 
Tlie sea beheld his pow 
The secret of the Lord 
The seed of sin's diseas 
The sharpness of thy tw 
The sighing ones, that 
The smilings of thy face 
The Son of God in tears 
The soul by faith reclin 
The spring's sweet influ 
The Stone the buildei"S 
The storm is laid, the 
The tempest heard his 
The tempest that obscu 
Tlie thanks I owe thee, 
The thing surpasses all 
The things uninown to 
The thunder of that aw 
The thimders of his ban 
The tokens of thy dying 
The trump shall sound 
The trumpet sounds, — 
The truth of our God 
The types and figures 
The univereal King... 
The veil is rent ; in him 
The veil of imbelief re 
The veil that hides thy 
The vineyard of the Lo 
The watchmen jom the 
The water cannot clean 
The way the holy prop 
The way thou hast enj 
The well of life to us th 
The whole creation join 
The whole triumphant 
The winter's night, and 
The word of God is sur 
The words of his unbou 
The world and Satan I 
The world can never gi 
The world cannot with 
The world recedes : it. . 
The world, sin, death 
The world's and Satan' 
The year rolls round, an 
The young, the old, insp 
Thee all the choir of an 
Thee, as our God, we to 
Thee, Father, Son, and 
Thee, holy Father, we 
Thee, in the watches of 
Tliee in thy glorious re 
Thee let the fathers ow 
Thee let us praise, our 
Thee, only thee, I fain 
Thee, Son of man, by fa 
Thee the first-bom sons 
Thee we expect, our fa 
Thee, while man, the ea 
Thee while the first ar 
Thee will I love, my jo 
Thee will I set at my ri 
Their bodies in the gro 
Their misery let thy m 
Their ransom'dspirits so 
Their souls with faith 
Their toils are past, thei 
fheir works of piety an 



Their worship no inter 
Then, as we join the ba 
Then bless his holy Na 
Then dig about the' root 
Then every murm'ring 
Then, Father, and nev 
Then, follow'dbyanum 
Then from the craggy 
Then give, or take awa 
Then hallelujah I powe 
Then in a nobler, sweet 
Then, in thy presence, 
Then leave me not wh 
Then let me on the mo 
Then let our hearts obe 
Then let our humble fa 
Then let our sorrows ce 
Then let the hope of jo 
Then let the last, loud 
Then let the thund'ring 
Then let the worms de 
Then let us adore, and 
Then let us all thy fuln 
Then let us ever bear. . 
Then let us gladly brin 
Then let us hasten to th 
Then let us in his name 
Then let us lawfully co 
Then let us make our b 
Then let us see that da 
Then let us sit beneath 
Then let us still go en, . 
Then let us wait the so 
Then let us wait to hea 
Then, on thy glories wh 
Then peace returns, wi 
Then persevere till dea 
Then rage, ye storms ; 
Then, Saviour, then my 
Then shall God, -with la 
Then sliall J see, and he 
Then shall my cheesful 
Then shall my drooping 
Then shall my lips, in e 
Then shall my thankfu 
Then shall our hearts e 
Then shall the world, ad 
Then shall wars and tu 
Then shall we live to th 
Then sorrow, touch'd b 
Then take your golden 
Then the last judgment 
Then the Sun of rigbteo 
Then, then, my utmost 
Then, timely wam'd, le 
Then, to thy courts whe 
Then unto the Lord the 
Then, when the mighty 
Then, when the work is 
Then will he own my 
Then will I at thine alt 
Then will I tell to sinn 
Then, with angel-harps 
Then with our spirits 
Then, with the visits of 
Thence he arose, ascen 
There all our griefs are 
There all the ship's co 
There dwells the Lord 
There everlasting sprin 
There faith lifts up the 
There for me the Savio 
There fi-agrant flowers 
There generous fruits th 
There T shall bathe my 



There, if thy Spirit tea 
There, in worship pure 
There is a day of sunny 
There is a death, whose 
There is a great Physic 
There is a home for we 
There is a place, where 
There is a river pure and 
There is a scene, where 
There is a world above 
There is my house and 
There I shall bathe my 
There Jesus bids my so 
There let it for thy glo 
There let us all with Je 
There, on a glorious thr 
There our High Priest 
There saints of all ages 
There shall each raptu 
There shed thj' promis 
There the pompous triu 
There, there, on eagles' 
There thou has bid the 
There we our treasure 
There we shall meetag 
There we shall see his 
There we with ecstasy 
There what delightful 
There, when the turmoi 
There, with united voic 
There your exalted Sav 
These ashes, too, this lit 
These clouds of pride 
These feeble tj^es and 
These lively hopes we 
These lower works that 
These temples of his gr 
These tokens may we ev 
These various mercies 
These walls we to thy 
They come, they come 
They go from strength 
They know no want, the 
They mark'd the footste 
They scorn to seek eart 
They see the Saviiair fa 
They sing tlie Lamb of 
They sing thy deeds, as 
They suffer with their 
They tell the triumphs 
They that be whole, th 
They watch for souls fo 
Thine arms of everlasti 
Thine earthly Sabbaths 
Thine image, Lord, best 
Thine inward wiliiess 
Thine only glorj' let th 
Thine shall forever be. 
Thine the radiance to ill 
Thine utmost mercy sho 
Thine, wholly thine, Ave 
Thine would' I live, thi 
Think of thy sorrows, 
This blessed word be m 
This can my every care 
This day God was our 
This eucharistic feast.. 
This glorious hope reviv 
This happiness in part 
This heavenly calm wit 
This hope supports us h 
This is my blood, which 
This is salvation's sourc 
This is the day the Lord 
Til is is thi day which 



884 
33 

445 
201 
196 

55) 
33 i 
503 
332 

647 
565 
440 
409 
344 

25 
102 
172 
56S 
8 
279 
100 
33'^. 

47 
556 
675 

sy-i 

20i 
409 
658 
210 
498 
658 
238 
104 
659 

49 
579 
457 
614 
581 
142 

21 
620 
556 
284 
567 
111 
397 
101 
174 
192 
129 
395 
154 
336 
117 
130 
335 
152 
518 

32 
478 
242 
440 
463 
366 
162 
425 
662 
152 
442 
160 
177 
160 
151 



INDEX OF VEUSES. 



4!> 



This is lie dear redeem 
This 18 the faith we hu 
This is the grace must 
This is iae straight, the 
This is the way I lung ha 
Thia lamp, through all 
This only thing do I req 
This the universal bliss 
This, this is our high call 
This wiU I do for thy lo 
Thither his soul ascends 
Thither our faithful soul 
Thither the tribes repair 
Those are the hymns th 
Those bodies that corru 
Those mighty orbs pruo 
Thou all our works in us 
Thou art a God before 
Thou art merciful to sav 
Thou art the anchor of 
Thou art the earnest of 
Thou art the life : the 
Thou art the sea of love 
Thou art the truth : thy 
Thou art the way — the 
Thou art their triumph 
Thou art thyself the way 
Thon awful Judge of qu 
Thou bidd'st ua knock 
Thou, blessed Grod, hast 
Thou call'st me to seek 
Thou canst not toil in va 
Thou canst o'ercome th 
Thou canst, thou wilt, I 
Thou didst the meek ex 
Thou dost conduct thy 
Thou dost m tenderness 
Thou dost with sweet 
Thou dying Lamb ! thy 
Thou gavest me to spea 
Thou God of covenanted 
Thou God of tnith and 
Thou great and goo<l, th 
Tiion great, tremendous 
Thou hast bought me wi 
Tliou hast for sinners di 
Thou hast my flesh, thy 
Thou hast on us the gra 
Thou hast pronounced 
Thou hear'st me for sal 
Thou know'st for my of 
Thou know'st in the spi 
Thou know'st not which 
Thoii know'st the pain 
Thou know'st the way 
Thou, Lord, art wise al 
Thou, Lord, hast magni 
Thou, Lord, the dreadf 
Thou loving, all-at<>ning 
Tbon lov'st wbate'er th 
Thou my Impetuous spi 
Thou my life, my treas 
Thou, new heaven and 
Thou, O Christ, art all I 
Thou, O my G">d, thou 
Thou on the L<>rd rely. 
Thou only cansi our vvil 
Thou only, Lora, the wo 
Thon, only thou, the ki 
Thou our faithful hearts 
Thou restless globe of 
Thou seest me nelpless 
Thou seest my troubled 
Thou seest their wants, 
rhou shin'dt with ever 



289 1 Thou Source of joy supr 
'263 1 Thou spread'st the curt 
541 j Thou standest m the ho 
411 ! Thou waitest to be grac 
•270 1 Thou, who didst come to 
Thou, who dost fill the 
Thou who hast kect us 
Thou, who with still sm 
Thou whose inspiring br 
Thou wilt not break a 
Thou wilt not cast a sin 
Though buried deep, or 
Though but in part we 
Though careful, without 
Though cast down, we'r 
Though destruction wal 
Though earth-bom sha 
Though high above all 
Though humbled in the 
Though I have steel'd 
Though I have most un 
Though in a bare and ru 
Though in affliction's fu 
Though m the paths of 
Though late, I all fcrsa 
Though justice near thy 
Though on our heads no 
Though our sins, our he 
Though Satan now mak 
Though sorrow break th 
Though storms his face 
Though the night be da 
Though thou shouldst gi 
Though to-day we 're fi 
Though unseen, I love 
Though imworthy of th 
Though we here should 
Three in one, and one in 
Thrice blessed, bliss-ins 
Thrice blest will all our 
Thrice comfortable hop 



2-25 



Thrice happy mom for 
Thrice holy ! thine the 
Through all eternity to 



Through all his mighty 
Through all the courts 
Through 611 the mazes 
Through each perplexi 
Through every period of 
Through grace we hear 
Through hidden danger 
Through much distress 
Through the rich merits 
Through the valley and 
Through thee, we' now 
Through thee, who all 
Through tribulation gre 
Throughout the deep th 
Throughout the desert 
Throughout the univers 
Throughout the world 
Thunder and hail, and 
Thus chasteu'd, cleans 
Thus Christ our gloriou 
Thus fair was Zion's cho 
Thus humbly taught to 
Thus, Lord, while we r 
Thus may [ drink, — and 
Thus may we all thy w 
Thus may we sing till 
Thus might I hide my 
Thus on the heavenly h 
Thus present still, thou 
Thxis saved, may we w 
Thus shall the soul be 



Thus shtll thy mighty *6S 
Thus spake the seraph ; 7' 
Thus star by star decli 64. 
Thus, strong in his Red 431 
Thus, though the unive 142 
Thus- thus may I happi 3fc>. 
Thus lo the Lord I rais 626 
Thus, when life's toilso 3S6 
Thus, when the night o 366 
Thus, while o'er seas 6'25 
Thus, while our glad h '/() 
Thus, while the meane 7-2 
Tlius, while thy word 43 
Thus will the church be 41-2 
Thus, with ray tuoughts 36* 
Thus would my rising 361 
Thy all-surrounding sig 56 
Thy angels shall aroun 310 
Thy blood and righteou 343 
Thy blood shall over al 293 
Thy body, broken for m 163 
Thy call if I ever have 254 
Thy chosen temple. Lor 30 
Thy condescending gra 256 
Thy counsels all are pi 406 
Thy death supports the 649 
Thy faithful servant let 159 
Thy faithful, wise, aim 458 
Thy favour all my jour 453 
Thy favour and thy na 279 
Thy flesh, (perhaps thy 203 
Thy gentle iiand hath 3 372 
Thy gifts, alas ! cannot 317 
Thy gifts' are only then 453 
Thy glories blaze all na 47 
Thy glorious eye perva 371 
Thy glorious Name, th 6'2 
Thy golden sceptre fro 246 
Thy goodness and thy tr 179 
Thy grace, O Holy Gh 111 
Thy grace with glory 570 
Thy hand, how wide it 47 
Thy hand, in autumn, ri 61*! 
Thy heavenly grace to 37i 
Thy holy will be ever 394 
Thy judgments too, wh 226 
Thy killing and thy qu 314 
Thy kindness to our fat 617 
Thy kingdom come ; th 334 
Thy kingdom come, wit 356 
Thy love and power, ce 365 
Thy love can cheer the 281 
Thy love hath also sent 595 
Thy love, so free, so sw 522 
Thy love the power of 373 
Thy loving, powerful S 39 
Thy mercy never shall 59 
Thy meritorious sufc'rin 104 
Thy mighty Xame salv 546 
Thy Name, Jehovah, b 69 
Thy name salvation is 28 
Thy Name we bit is, al 613 
Thy nature be my law 306 
Thy nature, gracious L 30*2 
Thy needful help, O Go 454 
Thy nimi'rous works ex 547 
Thy oft"'ring still contin 109 
Thy only will be done, 340 
Thy people, Lord, are 583 
Thy poor were bountifu 371 
Thy power, and truth, 191 
Thy power I pant to pr 318 
Thy power in hunmu w 46S 
Thy power is in the oce 66 
Thy power omnipotent 671 



750 



INDEX OF VERSES. 



Thy power unparallel'd 66 
Thy praise, more const 532 
Thy promise is my only 246 
Thy quick'ning Spirit n 589 
Thy ransom'd servant, I 476 
Thy saints in all this gl 439 
TJiy shining grace can 540 
Thy single arm, almigh 186 
Thy sinless mind in me 304 
Thysov'reign eye looks 615 
Thy s'»v'reign grace to 18i 
Thy Spirit then will sp 354 
Thy sufF'rings, Lord, ea 161 
Thy teachings make us 119 
Thy temple is the arch 153 
Thy tokens we with jo 663 
Thy voice produced the ^0 
Thy will by me on eart 341 
Thy will is my perfecti 371 
Thy wisdom here wc le 623 
Thy word is power and 408 
Thy word, O Lord, wit 410 
Till, added to that heav 281 
Till all the earth rene 101 
Till at thy coming from 237 
Till he convey us home 80 
Till of the prize j)osses 442 
Till then— nor is my bo 483 
Till thou anew my soiil 352 
Till thou into my soul 311 
Till thou thy perfect lo 333 
Tillthroughly saved my 516 
Time, like an ever rolli 636 
Time to repent thou dos 230 
'TIS done, the great tran 272 
'Tis done ! the precious r 87 
'Tis done, thou dost this 329 
'Tis finish'd, all the debt 93 
'Tis finish'd ! let the joy 92 
Tis fit we sliould to dust 639 
'Tis God's all-animatmg 494 
'Tis he supports my mo 360 
'Tis here thine unknown 623 
'Tis his the drooping so 179 
'Tis life eternal to belie 263 
'Tis Love ! 'tis Love 1 th 388 
'Tis mercy, mercy, now 243 
'Tis myst'ry all,— the I 268 
'Tis not a cause of small 1-29 
'Tis prayer supports the 331 
'Tis thee I love, for thee 175 
'Tis there, with the lam 546 
'Tis thine a heart of ties 220 
Tis thine to soothe the 116 
'Tis to my Saviour I wo 485 
'Tis useless toil our sto 377 
To all his praying saint 338 
To all my weak conipla 501 
To ask with faith and 375 
To damp our earthly jo 667 
To dwell with God,— to 479 
To dwell with mis'ry h 84 
To each the cov'nantbl 632 
To earth, the great Re 209 
To faith reveal the thin 397 
To gather home his ow 139 
To hear the sorrows tho 226 
To help their grov'ling 180 
To him continually asp 499 
To him mine eye of fait 470 
To him shall endless pra 598 
To him shall prayer un 82 
To him that m thy na 263 
To Jesus' Name give th 427 
To Jesus' name, if all th 188 



To keep the fef.st, Lord 161 
To know thy nature an 356 
To love is all my wish 317 
To make an end of sin 125 
To make them trees of 180 
To our benighted minds 121 
To please thee, thus at 509 
To pray and wait the ho ' 
To purest joys she all 178 
To real holiness restore 
To save a world, he dies 85 
To seek thee all our he 30 
To shame our sins he hi 175 
To that great Redeeme 679 
To that Jerusalem abo 553 
To the blest fountain 195 
To the cross, thine altar 524 
To the great One and Th 22 
To the Son all praise be 20 
To thee all angels cry 50 
To thee, and thee alone 541 
To thee, benign and sa 221 
To thee for refuge may 377 
To thee I lift my mour 233 
To thee I owe my wealt 540 
To thee I tell my grief, 456 
To thee, inseparably joi 419 
To thee let all the nati 589 
To thee, O Lord of life, 530 
To thee our all devoted 620 
To thee our humble hea 262 
To thee the glory of th 265 
To thee the glory we as 616 
To tliee we all our way 379 
To thee we pay our gra 615 
To them the cross, with 101 
To this, this only will I 237 
To thy benign, indulgen 59 
To thy blessed will res 474 
To thy gracious will re 313 
To thy pard'ning grace 106 
To thy sure love, thy to 63 
To us a child of hope is 78 
To us, O Lord, the wisd 55 
To us our own Barabba 90 
To us the sacred word 24 
To you, in Da\-id's town 73 
To-day attend his voic 13 
Together let us sweetly 417 
Toil, trial, suflfring still 11 
Touch me, and make th 267 
Touch 'd by the loadsto 419 
Touch 'd with a sympat 104 
Train up thy hardy sold 376 
Tremble our hearts to 25 
Tremendous judgments 609 
Triumph and reign in 310 
Triumphant host ! they 63 
True and faithful as th 456 
Tnie and faithful witne 119 
True pleasures abound 549 
Truly our fellowship be 42r 
Trusting in thy word al 39! 
Tuno your harps anew, 9i 
Turn, and your sins of 206 
Turn back our nature's 356 
Turn, he cries, ye sinne 215 
Turn, mortal, turn ; thy 202 
Turn, mortal, turn; thy 203 
'Twas a heaven below 273 
'Twas not their courage 616 

Unchangeable, all-perf 70 
Undaunted to the field 431 
Under the shadow of th 63« 



Unitt fh.e pair so loag 601 
Unite us in the sacred 611 
Unspotted from the wor 318 
Unsustain'd by thee. I 457 
Unwearied may I tnis 494 
Uphold me in the doub 4S8 
Uphold me. Saviour, or 35;< 
Up into thee, our living 415 
Up to heaven their bar 623 
Up to the hills where 358 
Upon my head his cand olir 
Upon us lay thy might 361 
Us from ourselves thou 450 
Us into closest union dr 418 
Us int^ thy protection 417 

Vain his ambition, noise 637 
Vain the stone, the wat 97 
Vainly we offer each am 76 
Vessels of mercy, sons 145 
Vilest of the siufiiJ race 316 
Vilest of the sons of me 243 
Visit then this soul of 255 
Vouchsafe, celestial Do 123 
Vying with that heave 20 

Waft, waft, ye winds, 584 
"VVake, and lit^ up thys 358 
Waken, O Lord, our dr 635 
Walk in the light ! and 600 • 
Walk in the light ! thy 500 
Walk with me through 640 
Was it for crimes that I 94 
Wfish me, and make m 315 
Wash out its stains, refi 489 
Watchman,tellusofthe 600 
Watchman tell us of the 

night, For the mornin 601 
We all partake the joy 424 
We all shall think and 414 
We ave now his lawful 309 
We aie trav'ling home 497 
We bow before thy gra 197 
We bow before thy hea 61 7 
We bring them Lord, in 157 
We can, O Jesus, for thy 627 
We cannot speak one us 65 
We cannot think a grac 333 
We come, great God, Uj 25 
We come, obedient to 165 
We feel a strong immo 382 
We follow thee, our Gu 441 
We for his sake count 427 
We, for whom God the 507 
We, for whose sake all 507 
We have a house above 570 
We have not, Lord, thy 609 
We in thy word believe 61S 
We know it shall be do 588 
We laugh to scorn his 417 
We, like Jesse's son, 576 
We meet the grace to 28 
We meet through dista 593 
We meet with one acco 122 
We need not now go up 167 
We never will throw 632 
We now thy promised 156 
We own and bless thy 614 
We part in body, not in 676 
We praise Thee thatth 613 
We see the blood that 16-1 
We shall gain our callin 309 
We shall our time bene 13S 
We share our mutual 424 
We soon shall reaoh th 367 



INDEX OF VBRIiES. 



751 



We soon Bhall see the 
We too with him are 
We, -while the stars fro 
We who in Christ belie 
We will not close o\ir 
We would on thee rely 
We wrestle for the mi 
We yield to be set free 
Weak though we are, 
Weep for youv atad no 
Welcome trim earth: 
We'll crowd thy gates 
We-1 may the earth, as 
Well might the sun m 
Well pleased in him th 
Well pleasing to our Go 
Were I possessor of the 
Were the whole realm 
We've no abiding city 
What a rapturous song 
What ail'd thee, O tho 
What are our works, 
What could your Rede 
What did thine only So 
What empty things are 
What is it keeps me ba 
What is my being but 
What is the creature's 
What mighty troubles 
What peaceful hours I 
What snail T render un 
What shall I say thy gr 
What then is he whose 
What t'lough a thousa 
What (hough I cannot 
Wh/.. though in solemn 
What though my shrin 
What though the floods 
Wliat though the gates 
What thougli the spicy 
What, t<j be banish'd fr 
What troubles have we 
What we have felt and 
Whate'er I fondly coim 
Whate'er I say or do. . 
Whate'er in me seems 
Whate'er oftends thy gl 
Whate'er our pard'ning 
Whate'er onr willing 
Whate'er pursuits my 
Whate'er the Almighty 
Whatever ills the worl 
When all who on their 
When angry nations ru 
When anxious cares wo 
When by the dreadful 
When darkness mterce 
When death o'er nature 
When ends life's transi 
When evening slumber 
When every scene of li 
Wlien, for business on 
When from the arm of 
When gladness wings 
\V hen God is mine, and 
\V hen grace has purifie 
^Vhen, gracious Lord, 
When he firet the wor 
When He the table spr 
When heaven and ear 
When I behold the hea 
When I review my way 
When T tread the verge 
W iien, in ecstasy 9ubli 
When, ;«hi3 eortfc.vco 



When in port each day 
When in the bosom of 
When in the slippery 
When, in the solemn ho 
When in the sultry gle 
When Jesus makes my 
When justice bared the 
When life sinks apace, 
When nature's streams 
When next, at Penteco 
When o'er thy faithful 
When on Calvary I res 
When on Zion we stand 
When pain o'er my we 
When, passing through 
When poor and helples 
When rising floods my 
When Satan appears to 
When shall I reach tha 
When shall the wand' 
When shall these tidin 
When, shriv'ling like a 
When soiTows bow the 
When tempest clouds ar 
When that illustrious d 
When thou hadst rend 
When thou, O Lord, sh 
When thou the work of 
When 'tis deeply roote 
When to the cross I tur 
When we asunder part 
When we disclose our 
When worn with pain, 
Whene'er my careless 
Where all our toils are 
Where all thy laws are 
Where am I now ? from 
Where am I now, or w 
Where are the happy s 
Where are the living? 
Where can the mourne 
Where God's own hand 
Where is that Spirit, L 
Where is the blessedne 
Where is the blessed- 
ness I knew. When 
Where is the way ? ah. 
Where is the zeal that 
Where the golden gate 
Where the indubitable 
Where thon appointest 
Where'er his hand hat 
Wherefore, in never-ce 
Wherefore let every cr 
Wherefore to him my 
Wherefore we now for 
While all my old comp 
While at thy cross I lie 
While full of anguish an 
While God invdtes, how 
While golden harps and 
While guilt disturbs and 
While I am a pilgrim he 
While I draw this fleet 
While in the heavenly 
While in this region he 
While in thy house we 
While in thy word we 
While life's dark maze 
While many spent the 
While near each other 
While on earth ordain'd 
While our days on earth 
While the angel choirs 
While thou, Almighty 



Wl ile through this mh 9 
While thy glorious Na 34 
While thy minister's pr 34 
While thy word is hear 34 
While to thee our pray 34 
While yet in anguisn he 164 
Whisper thy love into 639 
Whither, O whither sh 455 
Who breathed into our 660 
Who can behold the bla 11 
Who can hio "-"ighty de IC 
Who can resolve the do 641 
Who can tell the happi 670 
Who did for us his life lOi 
Who In Jesus confide.. 559 
Who is like God? so gr 18 
Who Jesus' suff'rings sh 298 
Who made my heaven 543 
Who on earth can cone 560 
Who suffer with our Ma 551 
Who the calm can unde 622 
Who thee beneath their 206 
Who then shall live and 668 
Who thus our faith emp 162 
Who trusting in their Lo 646 
Who, who, my Saviour 88 
Who, who shall in thy 227 
Who, who would live al 568 
Who would himself to 213 
Who would not wish to 645 
Whoever Avill — O graci 176 
Whom I to thy grace co 399 
Whom now we seek, O 27 
Wliom thou dost guard, 370 
Why hast thou cast our 415 
Whv restless, why cast 513 
Whyshould I sh rink at p 563 
Why should I shrink at t 453 
Why should my heart 469 
Why should the foe thy 583 
Why should we doubt a 447 
Why should we tremble 657 
Why then, my soul, art 462 
Why will you in the cro 201 
Wide as the world is th 16 
Will gifts delight the L 218 
Will he forsake his thr 83 
Will justice frown me 242 
Wilt thou let him bleed 204 
Wilt thou not bid me ri 518 
Wilt thou not the prom 121 
Wilt thou suffer me to 327 
V/isdom divine ! who te 178 
With all who chant thy 542 
With all who for redem 38 
With angels and archa 548 
With calm and temper' 437 
With calmlv reverentia 14 
With cheerful heart I 368 
With deep repentance 259 
With ease our souls thr 413 
With flowing tears, an 159 
With fraudless, even, h 451 
With God the Son and 287 
With grateful joy, thy 580 
With heart and eyes, a 285 
With him T on Zicn sh 568 
With him, the Com«r-s 108 
With Israel's myriads s 588 
With joy shall we surv 499 
With joy the chorus we 75 
With joy we hail'd the 625 
With joy we shall beh 1S8 
With me, I know, I fee i&fi 
With mc if of old thou 2M 



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INDEX OF VERSES. 



With me, your Chief, y 
With meek submission 
With outstretch'd hand 
With pitying eyes the 
With prayer, our hum 
With saints enthroned 
With simple faith, on 
With soft'ning pity loo 
With thee conversing. 
With them let us ourvoi 
With this cold stony h 
With those who in thy 
With trembling hope, I 
With us no melancholy 
With us thou art assem 
With what different ex 
With what resembling 
With whom dost thou 
Within these walls let 
Within these walls, ma 
Without reserve give 
Without thjr grace, we 
Wonderful in counsel 
Worship, honour, powe 
Worthy the Lamb for 
Worthy the Lamb, on 
Worthy the Lamb that 
Would aught on earth 
Would he the body's h 
Would nail my passions 



Ye all shall find, whom 294 

Ye angels of God 74 

Ye chosen seed of Israe 111 
Ye curious minds, who 45 
Ye fearful saints, fresh 445 
Ye for whom his life w 11 
Ye, no more your suns 147 
Ye pilgrims, on the roa 8 
Ye slaves of sin and hel 1?0 
Ye sons of earth, in rev 54 
Ye who faint beneath th 630 
Ye who have sold for n 181 
Ye winds of night, you 54 
Yea, Amen ! let all ado 669 
Yea, bless his holy Na 614 
Yea, for thy truth and 515 
Yea, let him. Lord, in e 1"26 
Yea, let men rage ; sine 391 
Yea, though the earth's 502 
Yes J broken, timeless, 401 
Yes, every secret of my 665 
Yes, Lord, I shall see 275 
Yes, Lord, thou still do 144 
Yes, the Redeemer left 84 
Yes, thy sins have don 204 
Yet all things made an 29 
Yet, by the prince of d 585 
Yet didst thou not disd 604 
Yet, glorified by grace 646 
Yet God is present in th 26 



Yet h€ re, when tvi > or 21 
Yet how, my God, shall 647 
Yet, Lord, each murm' 454 
Yet, Lord, for us a rest 344 
Yet, Lord, where shall 456 
Yet, Lord, where'er th 580 
Yet mercy calls,— Ret 522 
Yet not thus buried, or 65S 
Yet now the kingdom o 521 
Yet one prayer more ; — 37 1 
^ et onward I haste to 549 
Yet, O ! the chief of sm 253 
Yet, O the riches of thy 515 
Yet save a trembling si 241 
YetstUl a higher seat 166 
Yet still the Lord, the 672 
Yet still we wait the en 590 
Yet these, new rising fr 660 
Yet, though my soul in 240 
Yet when the fullest jo 413 
Yet while around his b 163 
Yet while we sojourn 380 
Your faith by holy tem 498 
Your lofty themes, ye 13 
Your mournful cry he h 338 
Your real life, with Chr 499 
Your way is dark, and 200 



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